Microsoft to license Unix code
Travis Roy
travis at scootz.net
Mon May 19 09:42:20 EDT 2003
MS has had some type of unix thing for windows for a while. They're probably
just paying this and being done with it. Kind of like Apple licensing
one-click. Rather then go thru the lawsuit they can afford to license it.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org]On Behalf Of Sharpe,
> Richard
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 8:45 AM
> To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: FW: Microsoft to license Unix code
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> Hey did anyone see this
>
> Good Grief !
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> "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=f
eed&subj=n
ews
Richard A Sharpe
Database Analyst and Administration (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2
Amherst Technologies
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