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SCO Group files for bankruptcy protection
CNet ^ | 9/14/07 | Stephen Shankland

Posted on 09/14/2007 2:48:44 PM PDT by Nick Danger

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To: AFreeBird
Man, we are old.

I remember those days.

61 posted on 09/14/2007 7:47:49 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: Nick Danger

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of guys.


62 posted on 09/14/2007 8:47:14 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Nick Danger; ShadowAce
FRom Marketwatch:

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63 posted on 09/14/2007 10:16:08 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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Sco Group IncSCOX (NASDAQ CM) 0.37 Change:-0.28 -43.08% Volume :490,100


64 posted on 09/14/2007 10:18:04 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: All
From

SCO Group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Software company best known for high-profile battle over Linux

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In 2003 SCO had filed another, high-profile lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. for allegedly distributing parts of what it had thought to be its Unix property in freely-available Linux software code, creating concern among other Linux distributors that they, too, may be sued.

SCO has not hesitated to intimidate the open-source community -- in an interview late last month, SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride warned that Linux software still remains "squarely in the cross-hairs."

65 posted on 09/14/2007 10:21:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

See above link at post # 65!


66 posted on 09/14/2007 10:23:43 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Nick Danger

w00t! w00t!


67 posted on 09/14/2007 10:30:29 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Vote for FrudyMcRomson -Turn red states purple in 08!)
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To: cinives
Any of you guys remember those days, or are you all newbies in the techie world ?

I agree if you are talking about Santa Cruz. SCO Group have been weasels all along. They were formally Caldera and successfully sued MS to a settlement over their rough treatment of DR-DOS (by then known as Caldera DOS). I will never forgive them for settling right when they got MS on the ropes...

They then basically folded up Caldera DOS and bought Santa Cruz from the proceedings of the settlement. At the time, they received high praise from the *nix crowd, but considering what they did to Caldera DOS, I had a pretty good idea of where they would wind up. POS's.

68 posted on 09/14/2007 10:44:34 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Vote for FrudyMcRomson -Turn red states purple in 08!)
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To: 3niner
They obtained a lot of other technology for free from other companies (like Altos Computer Systems, where I used to work).

My first "home" computer was an Altos 586, that I've still got somewhere in my garage, along with two Altos II terminals! Back around 1985, I bought it for $1000, and swapped in a 40MB drive (another $1000) so I could load up the Xenix development system. Yes, for you newbies, you could get an OS and an entire development system on a 40MB drive, and still have space to work!

All work stopped at the shop for about a week when we got a copy of rogue! "Wait! There's a badger!"

Mark

69 posted on 09/14/2007 10:56:50 PM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: AFreeBird
I do recall having some little start up company by the name of "US Robotics", leaving the SYSOP of my board (me) a message for a deal for a 2400bd modem. I took em up on it. Still got that modem in a box around here somewhere. Along with a quite a few of their later models.

Hey! I'm looking at a pair of USR Dual Standards with the little gold NFR "badges" that I got as a SYSOP special. I started with host mode in QMODEM, and eventually moved to PCBoard software to run my BBS. I don't think these modems have been plugged in or turned on in more than 12 years! Why they're still sitting out in plain view, I don't know...

Mark

70 posted on 09/14/2007 11:02:09 PM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: cinives
Any of you guys remember those days, or are you all newbies in the techie world ?

It's quite a hazy memory, but I recall going to an SCO conference in CA in the mid-80s where the two brothers who were in charge sky-dived into the event, and I recall there was a really good band, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was...

And somewhere around here I've got my original O'Reilly Nutshell handbooks that I bought at Computer Literacy. Back then, they looked mimeographed, with covers stapled on, that looked like they were made out of grocery store bags! One in using curses, the other on TermCap and TermInfo! Man, it's been a VERY long time!

Mark

71 posted on 09/14/2007 11:08:23 PM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: roamer_1

I remember Caldera DOS. It had a very cool web browser. Of course, at the time I was working for a Novell Authorized Education Center, and one of my co-workers was one of the first Caldera authorized instructors in the country.

Mark


72 posted on 09/14/2007 11:13:04 PM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: MarkL
I remember Caldera DOS

It still lives on in OpenDOS and Udo Kuntz's Extended DOS (the ongoing work). It (caldera DOS 7) was also later divested by SCO as DR-DOS (it's original name) and is still available as version 8 (i think) as a commercial product.

I still have scratch drives loaded with Caldera DOS. There are some situations where it is quite handy, though I must confess, MS-DOS 7.10 (the DOS from Win98) is probably the most useful anymore, as it is widely supported by the DOS community.

73 posted on 09/14/2007 11:55:32 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Vote for FrudyMcRomson -Turn red states purple in 08!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Nick Danger
To bad the Tin Turkey done got herself banninated. You know, she's one of them polite windows users...... Not like us rude and threatening linux types.

And to get it out of the way: linux is communism, linus's parents were commies, red hat is red flag, ibm helped the nazis, linux doesn't respect IP, whack the git, foreign freeware, squawk!

Nick D: glad to see you are back and posting.

74 posted on 09/15/2007 5:25:51 AM PDT by Salo
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To: Salo

It is a shame that the Blustery Buzzard did not live to see this day. He would have been so proud :)


75 posted on 09/15/2007 7:36:04 AM PDT by Nick Danger (www.wintersoldier.com)
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To: Salo

Yellow Chicken was a girl?


76 posted on 09/15/2007 8:35:59 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: roamer_1
It still lives on in OpenDOS and Udo Kuntz's Extended DOS (the ongoing work).

Do you have a link to or about that? I Googled several permutations and didn't find anything.

77 posted on 09/15/2007 8:37:49 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Still Thinking

I always thought of him as Bill Gates’ fluff girl, but, no. You have to admit, though, mentally, he’s a combination of Helen Thomas and Cindy Sheehan.


78 posted on 09/15/2007 8:48:07 AM PDT by Salo
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To: Salo

Sounds about right.


79 posted on 09/15/2007 8:49:06 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: BlazingArizona

Ah, the good old days. I got my first kernel panic on SCO.


80 posted on 09/15/2007 8:53:38 AM PDT by Lx ((Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.))
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