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Ransom Love on United Linux, SCO Unix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-falling-hammer-squashes-all-bugs dept.

tit4tat writes: "Caldera chief executive Ransom Love confessed to ZDNet UK that "[Caldera is] not moving Open Unix [i.e., the former SCO Unix] onto Intel's 64-bit platform...." I suspected that Caldera bought SCO just to kill SCO Unix, even though they denied it at the time. Now, the first Unix I ever knew is about to be no more. "

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  1. title by Dionysus · · Score: 5, Funny

    For some reason I read it as Random Love Unites Linux...

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    Je ne parle pas francais.
  2. Caldera's Not Killing Off SCO! by BlueLines · · Score: 5, Informative

    *sigh*

    (from the article)

    So OpenUnix will continue in parallel to OpenLinux?
    Yes. Open Unix could well keep going in parallel to OpenLinux. We are not moving Open Unix onto Intel's 64-bit platform, but IA32 will be around for a long time yet.

    Please read the articles before you post them....

    -BlueLines

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    --BlueLines "The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity." -anonymous
  3. SCO should die by juan2074 · · Score: 5, Funny

    the first Unix I ever knew
    more like, the worst Unix I ever knew

  4. ransom note by jeffehobbs · · Score: 5, Funny


    wE hAVe YoUR UniX. PlaCE tWEnty
    THOusaNd DolLarS IN UnMArkeD
    hUNdreD DollaR BiLLs in OuR
    PaypAL AccouNT By JuNE 1St
    or wE WiLL kiLL -9 IT.

    ~jeff

  5. Re:Not well known by edhall · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not well known, because it isn't true.

    Sun's OS derived directly from BSD. One of Sun's founders, Bill Joy (now their Chief Scientist), was one of the primary developers of BSD and one of the people responsible for getting BSD to run on the 68000 (which was the processor used in the first Suns).

    At the time, Apollo didn't even run Unix, but rather their own OS named "Domain." To compete, Apollo modified Domain to support a Unix emulation (including a switching mechanism based on conditional symlinks). Domain didn't die until HP bought Apollo, though I believe they did ultimately port native Unix to Apollos just before then.

    -Ed