Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 20, 2003 08:04 AM
There's the conspiracy angle people have mentioned of Microsoft funding SCO's lawsuit, creating mayhem in the Linux community for as long as possible. But it could also just be Microsoft being Microsoft, always willing to cut a deal at a time the other party doesn't have any alternatives - I give you $20 million, you give me an unrestricted license to use your source code in any way I see fit. That's how Microsoft got the SQL Server code from Sybase. SCO must realize that the IBM lawsuit won't be settled for many years and there's no way it could afford to take on Microsoft at the same time.
Who knows, maybe they're thinking of replacing the NT kernel with Unix. They've already announced they're going to overhaul the Win32 API by 2005, and enterprise apps can be supported via the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Net virtual machine.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 20, 2003 08:04 AMWho knows, maybe they're thinking of replacing the NT kernel with Unix. They've already announced they're going to overhaul the Win32 API by 2005, and enterprise apps can be supported via the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Net virtual machine.
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