Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:05:12 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Fuhrman <cfuhrman@tfcci.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011060742520.6678-100000@icestorm.tfcc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011052026350.99664-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 scanner@jurai.net wrote: > They did once already. It was called XENIX. > If they still have it, they could dust it off, slap in a linux kernel and > call it MS linux. > This got me doing some research on the subject of XENIX. Microsoft purchased a stake in SCO sometime in the early 80's which lead to the development and release of XENIX. In '87, Microsoft was concerned that AT&T's UNIX wouldn't be able to run XENIX app's so they entered into a licensing agreement with AT&T to include some XENIX code in the AT&T base. AT&T sold it's UNIX technology to Novell in '93 who then sold it to SCO in '95. Recently, Microsoft sold it's shares in SCO after which SCO's shares collapsed. Some interesting tidbits: SCO asked M$ to drop the agreement since the XENIX code wasn't relavant. M$ refused and as a consequence, SCO paid M$ about $1.138 million in royalties (ouch) in FY 1998. Confusing, no? ;) From the UnixWare login (Yes, I've the absolute delight of having to work with UnixWare on a daily basis): UnixWare 2.1.3 (volcano) (pts/1) login: [munged] Password: UnixWare 2.1.3 volcano Copyright 1996 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 1984-1995 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Pat. No. 5,349,642 Cheers! p.s. I got this info from http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12338.html -- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications cfuhrman@tfcci.com | Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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