[Gllug] Re:SCO's Linux fight

[Christopher Hunter]

On Friday 30 May 2003 8:59 am, Roy Drinkwater wrote:
> I think the letter at
> http://www.sco.com/scosource/letter_to_linux_customers.html makes
> interesting reading.
>
> Roy Drinkwater
> Managing Director
> EgO Computers Ltd

It certainly does!  SCO "bought" the rights to a variant of Unix, and then 
realised that their proprietary product was being "undermined" by the "free" 
software community.  More fool them!

It's amusing to note that they've taken on IBM - it's mostly because they've 
been unable to sell their SCO/Unix to them.  IBM went with Red Hat (for a 
whole host of good business reasons), and put huge amounts of money and other 
resources into RH (and there are rumours of involvement with Mandrake, too).

I've pulled apart some SCO's "proprietary" software - there are significant 
similarities with many other OS's - so they shouldn't really be throwing 
stones in this particular glasshouse!  It's only a matter of time before SCO 
dies....

It's amusing to note that they didn't try taking on Microshaft - much of the 
guts of NT4 was an almost direct lift from UNIX - the bits that weren't were 
cobbled together in a variety of languages (which goes a long way to 
explaining all the M$ OS's lack of stability).

Anyone want to build a kde desktop that looks just like NT?   It could be fun 
to bait M$!

Chris  


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