OT: Novel wins Unix copyrights!

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
>Just 6 days ago the fight for who owns the Unix copyrights ends!
>
>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100610161411160
>
>So what is going to happen to all SCO servers running on companies ?
>
>Migrate to Linux ?

We moved most of our clients running SCO to Linux years ago, and have been
moving other hold-outs to Linux or VMware virtual machines running on Linux
as their old hardware goes Tango Uniform.

With one exception, all of our clients currently running SCO are also
running FilePro, the one exception having moved from FilePro to something
Pick based several years ago.

I installed our first mission-critical Linux system (Caldera) at a Seattle
law firm in September 1997 which was used primarily as a file and print
server for their Windows machines.  By the next SCO Forum in Santa Cruz, I
had many discussions with SCO folk from Doug Michels on down, saying that I
thought they would have serious competition in Linux, and they needed to
deal with it.

When Caldera bought SCO, I had high hopes that they would take things in the
right direction under Ransom Love, and keep the many good folks from Santa
Cruz such as Bela Lubkin, Dion Johnson, et al, getting rid of the clueless
types (names omitted to protect the guilty :-).  Unfortunately they kept
the wrong ones, and when Darl McBride came in, turning SCO into a
litigation company, alia jacta est.

Bill
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