[wplug] and this is why Microsoft disgusts me

[David Ostroske]

>From a netcast of some MS department head (Jim Allchin?) that I heard about five years ago, Microsoft and SCO used to have a more intimate relationship.

MS had worked on SCO Unix, inserting some of their Xenix code. This was a long time ago.

So, it's possible that MS, through Xenix, through SCO, through IBM, has code in Linux. Oh Lord, I can just imagine a nightmare scenario that could come true if such code was never replaced. But I don't know the full development process (SCO claims IBM lifted some of its drivers), so my fears may be ungrounded.

--- David Ostroske
    eksortso at linuxmail.org


----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Neuer <mr_fred_smoothie at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:38:35 -0700 (PDT) 
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] and this is why Microsoft disgusts me

> This probably has nothing to do w/ Linux at all.
> 
> MS used to sell it's own Unix version, Xenix. It's
> possible that some of that code worked its way into
> Windows and their licensing of the code/patents is
> probably more to do w/ protecting their ass if SCO
> decides to desperately fling some lawsuit their way
> than anything else.
> 
> Remember, they're just licensing the stuff from SCO,
> not buying the rights: MS can't enforce the rights,
> they're just protected from being sued for infringing
> them.
> 
> Of course, I'm sure they'll use lots of slippery
> language in public statements and press releases
> designed to scare clueless IT managers into thinking
> this somehow lends SCO's claims against Linux weight.
> But it doesn't.
> 
> Dave
> [...]

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