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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Novell, not SCO, found to own "Unix"
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 10:13:02 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1804011009100.27730@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1803310949500.22200@neener.bl.org>

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, Michael Parson wrote:

> My initial thought, when I saw that SCO had filed the $1B lawsuit, was 
> that maybe Darl McBride was hoping that the next headline people read 
> would be "IBM acquires SCO for $(some amount below $1B)."

Yeah, that was going around too; remember that SCO was practically broke 
at the time, and couldn't possibly afford to lose (as if anyone could).

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-01  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-29 20:51 Dave Horsfall
2018-03-29 21:19 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-30  1:01   ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30 23:22 ` Nemo
2018-03-31  0:34   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-03-31  1:53     ` Wesley Parish
2018-03-31 14:56 ` Michael Parson
2018-04-01  0:13   ` Dave Horsfall [this message]

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