[TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Mon Apr 5 09:53:14 AEST 2021


On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:48:38AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Apr 2021, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> 
> >>Yes, but weren't they also the first to unbundle the C compiler?  Until
> >
> >Yes, that really sucked but that wasn't until Solaris.
> 
> And it cost an arm and a leg, so we ended up using GCC instead.

The funny thing is Sun paid Michael Tiemann to work on g++.  And 
he worked out a deal that it was all open source.

Life is weird.


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