[PLUG] MS and SCO

[Phil Tomson]

On 19 May 2003, Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 12:16, David Pool wrote:
> > I didn't subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, so this is a second hand post.
> > Has anyone else spotted this? It's a bit worrisome.
>
> I saw it on /.; I didn't read carefully, but I got the impression they
> had licensed their IP (in the same way the Sun, IBM, HP et al do), not
> purchased it outright.  I'm guessing purchasing it outright would have
> been subject to vigorous anti-trust opposition, since some of
> Microsoft's main competition relies on their SysV licenses.

Perhaps, but who's in charge of Justice Department these days?  I don't
think they'd mind.

Phil