RE: Who Owns Unix?

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:20:33 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00564B61.20030310092033@fatcity.com>

Peter - Well put. "fund raising"

Dennis Williams
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Lifetouch, Inc.
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The core issue is that OSs have become commodities. SCO has no other horses in the stable. Even the boys and girls in Redmond are trying to grow beyond Windows. Looks like SCO does not have the billions rquired to muscle their way into the newly defined world of commodity operating systems so they are doing some fund raising.

• DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM> wrote:
  > I think the underlying issue is Linux. The SCO
  > people are seeing their
  > licensing fees slip away to the free Linux. As far
  > as I've seen, every major
  > vendor has a Linux strategy. This is SCO's effort to
  > strike back, discourage
  > defections. I think it is pretty dumb.
  > We have been on DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64, which
  > started out as OSF (Open
  > Software Foundation) Unix. When we visit vendor
  > booths, we ask if they've
  > ported to Unix. They say "sure". We ask about Tru64
  > and they just shake
  > their heads. I was hoping Linux would help this
  > issue, but I guess the
  > underlying problem is binary incompatibility, and
  > each vendor will still
  > have to offer a separate binary for each hardware
  > platform.
  >
  >
  >
  > Dennis Williams
  > DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
  > Lifetouch, Inc.
  > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:44 PM
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  >
  >
  >
  > Per the below link, SCO owns Unix and they're suing
  > IBM for a paltry
  > $1Billion:
  >
  http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/06/HNsco_1.html
  >
  <http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/06/HNsco_1.html>
  >
  >
  > How can this be?
  >
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