Re: [SLUG] New Job on Slug Job Page

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 20:09:55 EDT


I hate windows also, but it does put food on the table. And deep down I
believe MS is putting SCO up to this. Ever wonder where a company near
chapter 11 is getting money to fight IBM in court. I don't think Sun or
Novell are funding or supporting them.
Mike M.
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:37, Andrew M Hoerter wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
>
> > ... but building and supporting Sco boxes assaults my very being.
>
> You're lucky I wasn't drinking coffee, or you'd owe me for a new keyboard.
>
> > This is as much a hatred of Sco Unixware as an OS as it is a stand against
> > everything Sco is currently doing to the Linux community with its frivilous
> > lawsuit.
>
> I don't know what SCO's done to it since then, but Novell's UnixWare
> wasn't *too* bad. It was more or less a straight port of SVR4 to the
> Intel platform (now, maybe you don't like SVR4, but that's another
> argument entirely). Early releases were a bit buggy though; years ago,
> the other SVR4 porting houses tried to distinguish themselves by patching
> more original USL bugs than the other guy.
>
> It *is* the same product, right? It's hard to keep track with everybody
> trading the various bits and pieces of USL/USG.
>
> That aside, SCO UNIX does suck hard.
>



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