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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by worker_person on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:19PM (#31852271)
MSFT tried very hard to sue Linux into oblivion. Buying SCO, then claiming they owned all of Linux. http://www.groklaw.net/

I trust MSFT to screw everyone over.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by bastardoperator on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:31PM (#31852453)
You're making stuff up. MSFT never bought SCO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by birdyrooster on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:05PM (#31852940)
Not sure where your confidence came from but a Google of “sco Microsoft” reveals:

By the mid-1980s Microsoft had gotten out of the Unix business, except for its ownership stake in SCO.[20]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by signatoremo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:31PM (#31855898)
No, SCO was found in 2002, from Candera Software who was a Linux distributor [0]. How could Microsoft in 1980s own a company that wasn’t founded until 2002?

They later filed for bankruptcy in 2007.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by birdyrooster on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:03AM (#31881518)
Close, but you have the wrong incarnation of SCO

SCO was founded in 1979 by Larry Michels and his son Doug Michels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by bastardoperator on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:18PM (#31853942)
Not sure where yours is coming from, if we look at [20] it makes no such claim.

https://web.archive.org/web/20061105100939/http://www.inform...

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by birdyrooster on Sunday June 26, 2022 @08:09PM (#31889273)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation

They were a partner with Microsoft maintaining a version of Xenix

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by bastardoperator on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:01PM (#31900001)
That doesn't imply ownership and the article [20] that you pointed out doesn't make a specific claim. All good, but MSFT never fully owned or operated SCO at any level is the point I'm trying to make.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by birdyrooster on Monday June 27, 2022 @07:38PM (#31902356)
You aren't really saying anything at all. SCO would never have existed without Microsoft and Microsoft had a very significant stake in their business and gave it direction.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by colejohnson66 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:34PM (#31853347)
Owning stock, on its own, is not the same as buying a company
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by worker_person on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:10PM (#31853832)
If you own a controlling percentage. Then yes it is. That is how you buy/control a publicly traded company.

You can buy 100% of shares and take it private, but that's overkill for what Microsoft wanted.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by colejohnson66 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:17PM (#31854622)
Hence why I said “on its own”
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by birdyrooster on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:57PM (#31853632)
lmao
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