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Even worse

Even worse

Posted Aug 19, 2003 13:23 UTC (Tue) by erat (guest, #21)
In reply to: Even worse by rjamestaylor
Parent article: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

Not quite. When Caldera acquired SCO assets (note, not all of SCO was acquired) Caldera was still a Linux company. You didn't hear jack about UNIX vs. Linux until the new management team took over. Ransom et al would have never done anything like what you're seeing today. SCO assets were never acquired with the sole intention of pitting UNIX against Linux at a later date; if anything, the SCO sales channel and the IP that the sales channel was selling (and the engineers maintaining the IP) were what Caldera acquired.

Let the "SCO apologist" accusations begin...


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