Why Does SCO Focus On A Minix-to-Linux Link?

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 20, 2004 @11:34AM from the sometimes-they-really-are-out-to-get-you dept.

ansak writes "In the latest scoop from Groklaw, Groklaw user talks_to_birds pointed out an error in SCO's version of the famous Levenez Unix Timeline. The important error is the green dotted line which shows Minix to be a derivative of Unix. If this were accepted, and if Linux was shown to be a derivative of Minix, then SCO's lawsuits would be more likely to have merit. As it turned out, even MS called Samizdat unhelpful, but at least now there may be a plausible reason why someone would try to make the link between Minix and Linux in the first place."

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at least now there may be a plausible reason... by FFFish · 2004-06-20 12:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What's the matter with the old plausible reason: they've been huffing leaded gasoline?

Brain damage explains all.

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Re:Long live geeks by sp0rk173 · 2004-06-20 16:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"its."
Period inside the double quotes. Better yet, no period at all. A single word doesn't make a complete sentence.