Re: Wish
From: Bela Lubkin (belal_at_sco.com)
Date: 10/08/03
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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 07:48:35 GMT To: scomsc@xenitec.ca
"FyRE" wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:22:44 +0000 (UTC), tony@aplawrence.com wrote:
>
> [...SCO is dead as a software company...]
>
> >But in spite of all that, SCO software isn't going to disappear.
>
> Maybe a gradual slide, but since nobody will be maintaining the code
> base after SCO disappear, it's inevitable (and welcomed by a great
> many people).
I do not accept the position that SCO is necessarily going to
disappear. The outcome of the current brouhaha is currently unknowable.
But even if the _company_ did disappear, you're wrong about the future
of its _products_. The market for SCO's Unix operating systems is large
enough that if the company disappeared, someone _would_ step up to
acquire the products. They represent tens of millions of dollars per
year in revenue. Assets of that sort of value do not just "disappear".
_If_ the existing company went away, a new company based on the current
SCO products would not be responsible for the actions of the old
company. So your position that "Nobody will want to touch their
decrepit code with someone elses bargepole!" is just wrong.
>Bela<
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