[Golden Eagle]

AntiRepublic here so hates Microsoft he's willing to give IBM a free pass on them breaking their agreement with SCO to help develop the next Unix on Intel, and ruined them by helping flood the market with free Linux instead. They almost destroyed the entire US Unix market in the process, but thankfully it is recovering.

But there is justice in the world, despite his hate antiRepublic here has to work on M$ systems for a living! Is that not funny or what.

[WildBill2275]

Can someone explain why IBM would get into a deal with SCO?
They already had AIX (their UNIX variant).
HP had their high availability variant (HPSUX)(thats real marketing).
Linux was already a viable OS.
(I had two SPARCs in my office, one with SUN OS (Open Look) one with Linux, and a Windoz piece of junk).
SCO and SUN were (are) both Berkley variants

As far as anyone in IT not liking MS: They produce a sloppy product. They (last I knew) would not certify their OS (?) for mission critical applications. Too unstable or just afraid of litigation. I still get BSOD on my eXtremely Poor (XP) SP 2 laptop.

On the other hand, Linux is the OS of choice on the international space station. (The only thing France pushed for that made sense.)

[antiRepublicrat]

AntiRepublic here so hates Microsoft he's willing to give IBM a free pass on them breaking their agreement with SCO to help develop the next Unix on Intel

Why do they even need a pass? Unless they're under contract to stick with it, a company is free to abandon projects when they see better prospects. I never complained on any terms but technical (use of the inferior Win3.x API) that Microsoft dropped the collaboration with IBM over OS2/NT.

They almost destroyed the entire US Unix market in the process

They helped the market, with Linux. For one, because of Linux there are now a LOT more UNIX apps out there. Linux helped boost the sagging popularity of UNIX due to the increased capabilities of Microsoft's products.

But there is justice in the world, despite his hate antiRepublic here has to work on M$ systems for a living!

Not has to, choose to. I get very little of the administration headache, and get to have fun with .NET 2.0 all the time. Although 1.1 was quite headache-inducing, I could see the promise, which was mostly fulfilled in 2.0.

Quit projecting your philosophical software views onto me.

And learn my name, lead turkey.