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[familyop]

SCO even implied accusations against BSD (which system is very good for commercial, even closed development). SCO won't be forgiven by enough developers to get much help soon.

[antiRepublicrat]

We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that includes intellectual property it shouldn't

I seem to remember Darl saying "SCO asserts that the GPL, under which Linux is distributed, violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and patent laws."

[antiRepublicrat]

OpenServer 6 costs $599 for a computer with two users and $1,399 for one with 10 users.

Hmm, how about another commercial UNIX? Mac OS X Server beats the pants off OpenServer, and costs $499 for 10-client, $999 for unlimited client, even cheaper if you buy it with a server.

They are ONLY going to be able to sell this as an upgrade to those who perceive themselves as locked in to their current OpenServer platform.

[Who dat?]

Unixware and OpenServer… I haven’t heard of them in many years.

Quite a while back – I’m guessing 1997 or so – you could get freebie versions for personal use (provided you paid a material distribution fee or something). I had used a variety of *BSD operating systems and Solaris, but wanted to try the SCO products and installed each on a couple of machines.

I found them funky, clunky, and “different” compared with everything else I was used to. I just chalked it up to unfamiliarity with their product, but later when talking with someone that had a history of using SCO products daily, he said “no, it’s not you - SCO’s just funky, clunky, and different.”

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

SCO has been most prominent recently for its legal attack on IBM, Novell and others regarding its allegation that proprietary Unix software has been improperly moved into open-source Linux. Indeed, one of its targets is AutoZone, a former OpenServer customer.

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[Tribune7]

For stories like this I miss the Eagle :-)