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| Santa Cruz Exec, 1999: Linux Hasn't Hurt SCO, It's Helped Us |
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Monday, January 08 2007 @ 07:29 PM EST
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You won't believe this. A Groklaw member, Jeff Best, has turned up a 1999 CNET article by Stephen Shankland, quoting a Santa Cruz executive saying that Linux not only wasn't hurting SCO -- it was helping: Santa Cruz Operation added the ability to run Linux programs to its UnixWare operating system, declaring that the upstart operating system has helped UnixWare more than it has harmed it.
While Microsoft executives say Linux competes chiefly with Unix systems such as SCO's instead of Windows NT, SCO believes the opposite.
"So far as we've seen it's actually helped us," said Greg Schwarzer, director of small and medium business marketing at SCO. "Linux has got the word out that Unix on Intel is a viable alternative to Microsoft."...
Linux, meanwhile, has reinvigorated the Unix market, he said. "It has given a fresh, revitalized look to what people could do in the Intel space. Linux is a Unix movement. Revenues are going up strongly," Schwarzer said.
Adding support for Linux was a pragmatic choice. "We wanted our users to be able to take advantage of a lot of those applications being written for Linux," he said.
SCO has made the Linux compatibility software source code--the original programming instructions--publicly available, he said, giving the code back to the open source programming community that has developed Linux.
Hilarious. Simply hilarious. He also found this 1998 article on the announcement of Project Monterey. What stands out is that even in 1998, according to the article, Linux was listed as a competitor in the enterprise market, which refutes SCO Group's recent claim that prior to IBM's contributions to Linux in 2000, no one used Linux instead of Unix. Back in 1998, the article ends by noting, Microsoft owned "between 11 and 14 percent of SCO". You can't escape those old press releases.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 08 2007 @ 07:40 PM EST |
Re: "You can't escape those old press releases" or the fact that real
agents for Santa Cruz Operation in some cased, Caldera in other cased, etc...
approved & released them!
The law of agency strikes again.
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| Authored by: darkonc on Monday, January 08 2007 @ 07:40 PM EST |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 08 2007 @ 08:53 PM EST |
You note that:
Back in 1998, the article ends by noting,
Microsoft owned "between 11 and 14 percent of SCO". You can't escape those old
press releases.
I'm not sure how it fits into the overall
picture, but it is interesting to note that Microsoft took a 20% equity stake in
"old" SCO back in 1989.
To convolute the relationship between the
companies even further, in 1995, Novell acquired a 17% stake in "old" SCO and
joined Microsoft on SCO's board of directors.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 08 2007 @ 08:56 PM EST |
The quotes are from 1998 and 1999. At that time Linux, being limited in
capability, didn't hurt SCO's UNIX products. And Oracle and CA both still
certified on SCO's UNIX platforms, because they didn't consider Linux enough
of a solution to abandon UNIX.
After that in 2000, IBM makes the contributions to Linux in violation of SCO's
contract rights. And encourages Oracle and CA to abandon support for UNIX,
because Linux now has all the key UNIX features.
So Linux eats SCO's lunch, with IBM's encouragement. That's very strong
evidence in support of SCO's unfair competition and interference claims. And
of the damages caused to SCO by IBM's contributions to Linux.
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| Authored by: bfikes on Monday, January 08 2007 @ 10:12 PM EST |
| Here's
a 1997 article I wrote about Linux for a now-defunct trade publication,
Computer Retail Week.
"Linux has grown up in retail, and we're taking it to
the next level of becoming more mainstream," said Caldera's Love. "We have
margins sufficient to provide VARs the opportunity to participate."
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 08 2007 @ 11:23 PM EST |
Oh man, you gotta love the internet. Another nail in the coffin!
And the obligatory troll has to show up and say how positive it is for TSCOG's
case. More hilarity ensues. And while I'm trying not to spray coke all over my
screen I hit a key I've never hit before and found something new that Firefox
can do!
Only problem is I'm not sure what key I hit. I think it's time for bed.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 09 2007 @ 05:23 AM EST |
What are the sentences for that these days? We're talking, what, five or six
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| Authored by: Sunny Penguin on Tuesday, January 09 2007 @ 08:24 AM EST |
SCO vs SCOX?
Jedi vs Sith?
Caldera (AKA SCOX)is NOT Santa Cruz.
SCOX will soon be a caldera again....
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