Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > If memory serves correctly: > > MS bought 5% of SCO shares back then when they sold Xenix to SCO, and > then MS sold those shares.
Not really. The SCO that bought Xenix is not the SCO that is suing IBM. The SCO that is suing is actually Caldera. They changed the name to capitalize on SCO's name recognition as they were making money from "SCO UNIX" which they had bought a source license* (but not the patents and copyrights) from Novell. They were not making any money from their Linux. (no one was really interested in paying $100 "a seat" for Linux). Geoff. * This was fairly common around 1990. AT&T sold many source licenses for UNIX. SCO bought one, Everex (ESIX) bought one, Interactive Systems (later owned by Kodak and sold to SUN) bought one, etc. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-54-608-069 Do sysadmins count networked sheep? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
