SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead

Re:SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead by marcodiego on Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:00PM (#26692783)

I think the best way out for SCO was if IBM bought them. But, if IBM did so, other companies could try the same attack in other opportunities. So, IBM took a route that could crush it to death, but we are almost two decades after it all began and the zombie has not been shot in the head. Hope the case effectively finishes this time.

It is really a shame. Caldera looked like a good distro:

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sco

https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2013/03/27/caldera-open-l...

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Re:SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead by zeruch on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:28PM (#26693382)

Caldera was a decent distro in its day. It had some potential (it was funded initially by Ray Noorda's Canopy VC which gave it a little leg up), but its fall off/acquisition by SCO was fast, hard and ugly.

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Re:SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead by garaetjjte on Sunday April 04, 2021 @07:28PM (#26693745)

>acquisition by SCO

It was other way around. SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) sold off its UNIX business to Caldera, and renamed itself Tarantella (it was sold to Sun some years later). After some business failures Darl McBride took over as CEO in Caldera, renamed Caldera to TSG (The SCO Group) and started these lawsuits.

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Re:SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead by alisonatwork on Sunday April 04, 2021 @08:40PM (#26694214)

Truly the company with the best name and shittiest business model (post 2003).

It's too bad they ended up going that way. We used SCO OpenServer back in the late 90s and early 00s because it was a UNIX that ran on consumer PC equipment. That was a really big deal for installs in rural and remote sites where accessing custom hardware from Sun or SGI or whoever might've been tricky.

It was an interesting time, because seemingly overnight SCO went from being the company that made UNIX for the little guy into the biggest heels on the internet. We migrated most of our customers over to Red Hat and Postgres (from OpenServer/Informix), but still had some SCO sites running when I moved on in 2006ish. I can't imagine anyone moving back now. Linux killed them, and after how they behaved it's hard to shed a tear.

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Re:SCO Linux FUD returns from the dead by lokedhs on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:26PM (#26694438)

I used to work for a regional distributor for SCO, and my first Unix related job was to support SCO products. It was a nice product at a time when Linux was just starting to become capable of running server workloads.

Even though I had long left the SCO world when all the lawsuits happened, but I still felt disappointed that it had come to that.

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