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Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code

Posted by Hemos on from the the-world-just-keeps-getting-wierder dept.

The big news of this morning is that Microsoft will evidently be licensing the Unix code that SCO carries the rights to. Yahoo! is also carrying a brief WSJ report as well. Additionally, give a read to the OSI position paper on the issue. One thing that is worth noting is that Microsoft does do *some* work with Unix - like the interoperability package - but the other side is that Microsoft deals with intellectual property a lot, and licensing is standard way of dealing with IP claims.

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  1. Don't Forget The Possible Boost In The Stock Price by Taliesan999 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't forget the possible boost for SCO's stock price.

    Would be interesting to see who offloads the stock if the price rises as a result of this.

  2. Re:Is Linux a Machination of Satan? by AngelSorayama · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dude! Do you have nothing better to do?

    --
    -no yami wa mitsukeru kibo-