[Gllug] My god that Mark Shuttleworth gets everywhere

['lesleyb']

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:14:55AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 10:08 +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> > I wouldn't be entirely surprised if Microsoft suddenly announced it was
> > going to produce its own distro,
> 
> MS is unlikely ever to publish a Linux distro. They do have history of
> involvement in Unix via SCO (spit!) and have long used BSD derived code.

Way back in the mid 1980's - way before Jean Luc Picrad, Captian Janeway and pre TCP/IP even(!) - Microsoft had a product called Microsoft Xenix.

They sold it to SCO and became SCO Xenix before becoming SCO Unix.

So I'd rather say that SCO became involved with Unix via Microsoft, and not t'other way round.

Not sure about the BSD code though although I can recall some trials and tribulations with uucp.

Regards

Lesley
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