30 Mar
2018
30 Mar
'18
11:22 p.m.
On 29/03/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Time for another hand-grenade in the duck pond :-) Or
as we call it
down-under, "stirring the possum".
On this day in 2010, it was found unanimously that Novell, not SCO, owned
"Unix". SCO appealed later, and it was dismissed "with prejudice";
SCO
shares plummeted as a result.
As an aside, this was the first and only time that I was on IBM's side,
and I still wonder whether M$ was bankrolling SCO in an effort to wipe
Linux off the map; what sort of an idiot would take on IBM?
Methinks a mention of the wonderful record at Groklaw
(http://www.groklaw.net) is in order.
N.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."