Re: SCO Licenses Unix Intellectual Property To Microsoft ! ! ! !

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MS has interoperability software between MS and Unix, and must have
some nix code in there. However, they did this just to kick IBM.

I couldn't help noticing that SCO searching for their code in Linux
is starting to sound like Bush's search for WMD in Iraq...
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Myers - MM" <jmyersmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 10:58 AM
Subject: RE: SCO Licenses Unix Intellectual Property To Microsoft ! ! ! !


> A judge with a "tech brain" ... is there really such a creature?  Sounds
> nasty ...
>
> In the USA legal system, judges can't initiate anything!  It requires a
> lawsuit / prosecution to start the process.  On reading the article, I
> can't see anything on this issue that Microsoft has done that is legally
wrong.
>
> Remember XENIX ... it was the first UNIX implemented on the IBM PC.  It
was
> released by Microsoft in about 1984.
>
> Perhaps they are returning to their roots!  <g>
>
> The older I get, the more I appreciate history!!!
>
> This sounds like a CPF0000 posting ... see you there!
>
> John Myers
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> At 10:04 AM 5/20/2003, you wrote:
> >EXACTLY - FUD ! And bucks. I'm no big fan of litigation, but a judge with
a
> >"tech brain" really needs to take a look at this and say "HANG ON A
> >MINUTE...".
> >
> >Chuck
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DeLong, Eric
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:31 AM
> >To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> >Subject: RE: SCO Licenses Unix Intellectual Property To Microsoft ! ! ! !
> >
> >It's a way for Microsoft to support SCO for its legal attack against IBM
and
> >linux.  Microsoft gets to put doubt (fear of litigation) into the minds
of
> >CIOs (or any other O's for that matter) that makes linux more difficult
to
> >bring into the data center.
> >
> >Eric DeLong
> >Sally Beauty Company
> >MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
> >940-898-7863 or ext. 1863
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 7:54 AM
> >To: midrange-l
> >Subject: SCO Licenses Unix Intellectual Property To Microsoft ! ! ! !
> >
> >
> >This is UNREAL !
> >
> >http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=42065
> >
> >For those of us running Linux on Intel boxes or the AS/400-iSeries, this
is
> >going to be interesting.
> >
> >Chuck
> >
> >
> >
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