[Gllug] Goodbye SCO

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Anyway, it's a long way from the times (circa early 90's) when I was
held over a barrel by my SCO supplier for £££ per desktop client. The
other fun day was
when I was walking the SCO area salesman around our office and I pointed
out our first linux desktop: "See that, that didn't cost us anything!". The
salesman scoffed and said that it would never be as professional a product as
SCO.

Tid

On 15/09/2007, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:35 +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:05 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > > In case anyone hasn't noticed SCO have filed for bankruptcy.
> >
> > > Actually, they haven't: they've filed for protection from bankruptcy
> >
> > Point taken however C11 is only protection if there is a way out of
> > bankruptcy and if Novell is owed $20million and SCO has only $14million
> > with other debts there is no way out for SCO unless Novell back off -
> > Novell having so far shown every sign of wanting blood.
> >
>
> Regardless of the downsides of this (the Chap 11) I think the big big
> positive is that the first company to attempt to destroy the Linux
> kernel project is now a shell, the kernel and the wider free software
> project has won powerful and wealthy supporters (eg look at the way IBM
> are now also supporting ooo).
>
>
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