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MSFT tried very hard to sue Linux into oblivion. Buying SCO, then claiming they owned all of Linux. http://www.groklaw.net/ http://www.groklaw.net/ I trust MS

• bastardoperator 4y ago
  You're making stuff up. MSFT never bought SCO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
  • birdyrooster 4y ago
    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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft
    • colejohnson66 4y ago
      Owning stock, on its own, is not the same as buying a company
      • birdyrooster 4y ago
        lmao
      • worker_person 4y ago
        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.
        • colejohnson66 4y ago
          Hence why I said “on its own”
    • bastardoperator 4y ago
      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.informationweek.com/author/internet36.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20061105100939/http://www.inform...
      • birdyrooster 4y ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation They were a partner with Microsoft maintaining a version of Xenix
        • bastardoperator 4y ago
          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.
          • birdyrooster 4y ago
            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.
    • signatoremo 4y ago
      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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group
      • birdyrooster 4y ago
        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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation