On Sep 15, 7:18 pm, Bill Campbell <b...@celestial.com> wrote:
> Let's not forget that it was Novell that hammered the nails in
> SCO's coffin.

Given that the current management at SCO Group took (a) the Santa Cruz
VAR channel and mixed it with (b) an at-the-time commercial-grade
Linux package, they should have had smooth sailing.

Instead they ran the company into the ground, then had the brilliant
idea of suing IBM over copyrights THEIR OWN PEOPLE told them weren't
theirs before they filed suit.

Given the amount of money IBM makes managing other companies' systems,
claiming they stole intellectual property is guaranteed to make them
respond with both barrels.

Novell's actions only pulled the curtain back from the scam being
pulled; lay the blame on Yarro and McBride for thinking IBM would just
throw money at them to go away.

At this point I'd be looking at something like Solaris x86 if I was
trying to keep support up in a true-UNIX environment. But I'd be more
likely to see which of Red Hat or Novell's Linux packages came closest
to what I needed.

[and before you jump on me as Yet Another Linux Loonie, I was *AT*
AT&T for twelve years, half of that at The Labs; seeing McBride using
the UNIX codebase as some sort of legal blackjack p*d me off more than
you can possibly conceive, especially as it came out just how thin
their case was going in]