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Message-ID: <67BAFB085CD7D21190B80090273F74A45B7D05@emwatent02.meters.com.au>
From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash...
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:51:12 +1100
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AFAIK, SCO is a _subsidiary_ of M$ ...

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	fernande AT internet1 DOT net [SMTP:fernande AT internet1 DOT net]
> Sent:	Sunday, 29 October 2000 15:33
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Re: Overclocking, Linux issues: was Re: About Micro$quash...
> 
> Ben,
> 
> I have SCO Openserver 5.05, and it was based on Xenix if I remember
> correctly.  It has Microsoft copyrights in it, that are visible while it
> boots.  It is more than just in a text editor.
> 
> I was very disappointed when I saw that.  I bought it thinking I had
> finally found something not touched by Microsoft.  Even my Apple //e has
> been touched my Microsoft :-(
> 
> Chad Fernandez
> Michigan, USA
> 
> Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
> > 
> > > Wonder why MS developed XENIX??????????????????-:)-:)-:)-:)
> > Well, they did develop Xenix before NT, and unfortunately from this they
> got
> > their copyrights on some commercial 'real' Unices - I think it was
> Solaris
> > or SCO, in one of the text filters.  'more' I think.  Uhr, I'm waffling.
> > Excuse me.

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