It occurs to me that I may have been wrong when I speculated that SCO wants to be bought by IBM. I am starting to think that SCO just wants IBM to support AIX (and pay more royalties). It sounds a lot like IBM is planning to drop AIX, which would hurt SCO.
-----Original Message----- From: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting) From http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6584026%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html SCO ups ante against IBM Staff writers JUNE 12, 2003 SCO has upped the ante in its Linux/Unix intellectual property litigation, reportedly threatening to revoke IBM's licence to use its software in its own version of Unix, AIX. SCO's president and chief executive Darl McBride told Reuters that IBM had until midnight tomorrow to come to an agreement or it would revoke its licence. Unix distributor SCO announced in March it was suing IBM for more than $US1 billion for allegedly using code from SCO Group's Unix platform in AIX, as well as IBM's Linux distribution. ..... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sametime: (use Lotus Notes address) AIM: lbdyck
