idiocy

[Tim Wunder]

On 3/7/2003 3:32 AM, someone claiming to be Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 23:02:48 -0500
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <bholcomb at intergate.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey, if you can't make a success with a product then use lawyers.  
> 
> 
> I think this is all about UnixWare and Project Monterey. I think SCO did, in
> fact, get screwed by IBM on this one. SCO did LOTS of programming with
> UnixWare and AIX for this project, which should have resulted in one Unix
> core source and then variants on that from each vendor. (Sounds similar to
> UL.) I think IBM took what they could and did not continue, leaving SCO
> stranded. I went to a Project Montery presentation at IBM here in Stockholm
> and was told that Unix vendors would use a common base that they would all
> develop, and that each would add value. For the programmer, they were
> offering a single API for development and administration. It all sounded
> good. I think that after SCO did lots of stuff to improve AIX (which really
> lacked some important features at the time), IBM said thanks and did not
> continue. In effect, they got what they needed. Many AIX improvements that
> have helped it recently were the result of work done with SCO. I think SCO
> may have been a little naive about how the various ways the project could
> go.
> 
> So, SCO did help IBM make a success with AIX. The return help in making
> UnixWare better never happened.
> 

 From http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/03/07/1728239.shtml?tid=3
"So why is SCO doing this? [Bruce] Perens says they want to get bought - 
but get this - by IBM itself. Perens says that SCO, AKA Caldera, has 
always been run by investment firms. "This is [the current investment 
firm?s] exit strategy," he says. "IBM can buy them just to shut them up 
and finally own all of the Unix stuff.

"IBM doesn?t have to settle with a company this small. They can just eat 
them."

Perens doesn?t believe SCO realistically thinks it has a chance of 
winning this lawsuit. "In filing this suit they have put a gun to the 
head of their own software business and pulled the trigger. No one in 
the Linux world will ever recommend them for anything again, and other 
people will look at this and say 'no, this too nutty, I don?t trust 
these guys.'""

Hmmm...

Tim