OT: Novel wins Unix copyrights!

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With neither thought nor caution, Enrique Arredondo blurted:
> Just 6 days ago the fight for who owns the Unix copyrights ends!
> 
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100610161411160

Boy, unless you were watching for it, that went not with a bang, but a
whimper.  Thanks for the heads-up.

> So what is going to happen to all SCO servers running on companies ?
> 
> Migrate to Linux ?

Or any of the BSD flavours.

Commercial *nix offerings are really kind of going downhill (or went
downhill).  Discounting OS/X, the only one that's actually remotely popular
as a server platform is Solaris--which actually gets attention from
hardcore *nix fans -outside- the Sun hardware sphere, since Solaris x86 was
made available.

I think everyone else is either locked into their own hardware, or went
away, for the most part.

I'm waiting for SCO to fold entirely, now.  Maybe a few clients will
migrate once the support goes away.  Then again, maybe not--there are
people out there still running Xenix, unfortunately.  Sadly, it seems that
many users don't really pay attention to anything about their systems
until they break in some way, or a new license is needed.

mark->
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