FW: Microsoft to license Unix code

Sharpe, Richard rsharpe at amherst1.com
Mon May 19 08:44:32 EDT 2003


Hey did anyone see this

Good Grief !





"Microsoft will license the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move

that could impact the battle between Windows and Linux in the market for 
computer operating systems." 

"According to a statement from Microsoft, the company will license SCO's
Unix 
patents and the source code. That code is at the heart of a $1 billion 
lawsuit between SCO and IBM, which is aggressively pushing Linux as an 
alternative to Windows in corporate back shops." 

"Microsoft's Windows has a monopoly in the market for desktop operating 
systems, with a market share greater than 90 percent. Linux, which has been 
developed by thousands of contributors and can be freely obtained, has
caught 
on as a worthy competitor in the market for corporate servers. In the past 
two years, Microsoft has repeatedly labeled Linux as a threat to the
Redmond, 
Wash.-based computing giant, partly because of its low cost." 

http://rss.com.com/2100-1016_3-1007528.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=n
ews



Richard A Sharpe
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