[KLUG Advocacy] A [little] more on the SCO suit

[John Bridleman]

* Adam Williams (awilliam@whitemice.org) wrote:
> I look for IBM to either buy UNIX or dump AIX. 
> 
> IBM is about at likely to dump AIX in the near-term as Bill is to dump
> Windows.  They have WAY to many HUGE customers depending on it.

I agree they won't be dumping it near-term, but I thought I remember reading something about IBM moving away from AIX over the next decade or so.
 
> SCO  is a corporate wraith, a long dead entity that just won't stop
> harassing people.  It and Caldera make a really good couple.  Maybe IBM
> will just assimilate these annoying creatures, solving the problem by
> brute force.    Hey, anyone still using the "Looking Glass" window
> manager that Caldera hyped so much?  Or bumped into SCO's Tarantula
> lately?  Nah, didn't think so.

No, but I'm still forced to run openserver 5. It truly is the Windows of the 
Unix world.
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John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org