Re: SCO Technical Articles to say "tata".

From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 05/30/03 

Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:15:09 GMT
To: Sco Mailing List <scomsc@xenitec.on.ca>

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:27:59AM -0600, justin wrote:
...
>I guess it is time to start porting to Linux. I just hope that by using
>Linux, I am not violating SCO's intellectual property rights. Maybe Mac OS
>X is a safe choice ... wait that is based on linux too. Microsoft is
>certainly not the answer. I guess I could port to Novell???

Time to _START_ porting? Where have you been for the last seven
years or so?

OS X is based on FreeBSD, not Linux.

FWIW, AT&T sued Berkeley about Unix licensing in the early '90s -- and
lost! You might want to read Eric Raymond's comments:

        http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html

Bill 

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