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SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems

Posted by michael on from the investing-in-FUD dept.

Vicegrip writes "Apparently Sun not only bought extra licenses from SCO, but also obtained the option to buy a nice stake in the company: 'The pact, signed earlier this year, expanded the rights Sun acquired in 1994 to use Unix in its Solaris operating system. But there's more to the relationship: SCO also granted Sun a warrant to buy as many as 210,000 shares of SCO stock at $1.83 per share as part of the licensing deal, according to a regulatory document filed Tuesday.'" A reader points out Ransom Love's 2000 Linuxworld keynote speech.

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  1. SCO who? by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 5, Informative

    you should also note that the only reason for the expansion of the license was to allow sun to do intel hardware drivers under Solaris..soemthing they could have adpoted from Linux without any costs what so ever..

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  2. Re:Makes sense for Sun. by axle_512 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even the largest companies who need big iron systems rarely go to Sun anymore.

    What are you talking about?
    I happen to do business with some of the largest companies on the block, and I've seen their server rooms, and I've seen their Sun Ultra 15K's. Sun isn't selling big iron to the largest companies? Yeah, right!

  3. Re:C-oinki-dink? by mihalis · · Score: 4, Informative
    Didn't Sun announce earlier this year that they were dropping their Linux program?

    Well yes, they aren't making "Sun Linux" any more. However it was just Red Hat under the covers. Now they just call it RedHat. Move along, nothing to see here.

    Coincidence?
    yes

  4. In other news senior VP bails from SCO by expro · · Score: 4, Informative

    In other news senior VP bails from SCO, demonstrating a likely opinion of advanced technologists there about the merits of the case and the future of the company.

    This post was not intended to be funny, but only off topic, since I have been repeatedly unsuccessful with story submissions that actually contain significant new interesting information about the case.

    That Sun was trumpetting their status as a SCO licensee of Unix in disregard for any solidarity with Unix or Linux vendors or users was obvious, and this "revelation" was not a suprise in the least. It just means that Sun gave them a small amount of money a bit more recently.

  5. Re:Nope by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think so. You can distribute any GPL product with your OS without making it open.

    They would have to make public the modifications they did on the driver itself to integrate it to the kernel, but not the kernel itself!

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