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Increased Linux Use With SCO's Defeat Predicted
twitter writes "The defeat of SCO's infamous copyright attack has Forbes wondering if a GNU/Linux boom is upon us. They discuss how this will benefit Novel, IBM, Chrysler, AutoZone and Red Hat. 'The SCO Group frightened potential business users away from Linux with lawsuits demanding billions in royalties. But the litigious company's claims were shot down in a ruling that will likely boost uptake of the operating system.'"
*Companies formerly threatened by SCO peek out from their spider holes*
"Is it safe to use Linux now?", they say timidly.
The game.
The SCO Group did not return a call seeking comment on Monday.
Maybe their phones were disconnected for non-payment?
Trolling is a art,
That sure is a lot of verbiage to say "Novell put sand in the KY and widened our hineys."
Well, long ago, Microsoft wrote a Unix system called Xenix. They sold it to SCO, who renamed it Netware.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
From TFA:
Unix was developed by the old American Telephone & Telegraph. The company allowed the system to be copied, leading to multiple versions, some of which effectively leaked into the public domain. In the early 1990s, Linus Torvalds, then a college student in Helsinki, wrote a version of the program from scratch that he called Linux. Torvalds posted Linux on the Internet, allowing others to copy and improve upon it. The sytem became popular for use on servers as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows.
Yup, that's right, ol' Linus just sat down and cloned the entire Unix operating system from scratch. On his own. With no antecedents.