Thought you all might be interested in this article. http://www.sourcemagazine.com/articles/viewer.asp?a=695
"In 1979, brothers Doug and Larry Michels founded the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) as a UNIX porting and consulting company using venture capital from Microsoft..."
"Microsoft acquired a 25 percent share of SCO, which at the time gave it a controlling interest. While SCO handled the actual development and added some enhancements of its own, Microsoft handled the marketing of the product, which it touted as the "Microcomputer Operating System of the Future!""
No definitely not. I think the story goes something like this.
Microsoft I doesn't have any stake in SCO anymore. Microsoft bailed when they sold off Xenix. Novell in an attempt to fight off Microsoft bought Xenix along with WordPerfect. They later sold Xenix to SCO and Word Perfect to Corel.
Somewhere in all this the Novell CEO funded a Linux startup called Caldera. Later Caldera purchased SCO.
Really it's Novell's CEO who is pulling SCO's strings these days and he detests Microsoft.
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