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Re: M$ licenses Unix



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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:14:21AM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> MS is licensing the code which it once owned. They licensed Unix from 
> AT&T Bell Labs, then portd it to many platforms and called it Xeinix. 
> Then the IBM PC came and they sold their Unix business all to a company 
> called SCO and SCO renamed it to OpenServer or something like that. 
> Now, they are licensing back their code. And with this they are helping 
> SCO not go bankrupt, and stand against IBM in the court. 

So, essentially, this is Microsoft's Vietnam?

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