[PHoynak]

I just heard that Microsoft is buying the rights to unix technology from SCO Group? WTF? Do they plan to release a UNIX OS of their own? My personal opinion is that they see the writing on the wall and know that Apple is poised to make a dent in their market share. I am for a free market but they need to be stopped from buying everything in sight.

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Originally posted by PHoynak:
I just heard that Microsoft is buying the rights to unix technology from SCO Group? WTF? Do they plan to release a UNIX OS of their own? My personal opinion is that they see the writing on the wall and know that Apple is poised to make a dent in their market share. I am for a free market but they need to be stopped from buying everything in sight.

the target is not Apple, but Linux ...

[slider]

There is a thread running, in the Mac OS X forum on this. Who knows where anything really belongs around here. Good point questioning whether or not M$ plans to release UNIX. From the other thread you get the impression that Apple is not at risk to this.

[ShadowKatana]

Fact: Microsoft is trying to corner every market to be a step ahead of the competition.

Everybody knows that Mac OS X is a very stable OS, so I can't blame them for emulating Apple. However, as Ludovik stated, the target really is Linux. Linux is the open-source thorn in Microsoft's side because it is something Microsoft cannot control.

[wallinbl]

Microsoft provides a product called "Services for Unix". They have even written some of the code in SCO Unix. This is probably just housekeeping as far as IP goes.

Of course, I'm sure they'd like to lend some credibility to SCO's lawsuit.

There is a good rebuttal of SCO's rights here:
http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html

[MacManMikeOSX]

Microsoft's 2000, NT and Xp net stacks are based on unix net stacks BSD specifically.

[voodoo]

Microsoft already did UNIX.

XENIX (1979)