[CaptainZapp]

Reminds me of the good burghers of SCO and that little shitty they tried to pull off in the beginning of the century.

It didn't end well.

[ArkyBeagle]

Sure it did. Linux.

[justinlardinois]

Both the Linux kernel and the GNU OS predate Caldera acquiring the Santa Cruz Operation and turning into a lawsuit house.

[ArkyBeagle]

But SCO preceeded Linux. If there'd been a cheap version of SCO in the first half of the 1990s, I doubt I'd have looked twice at Linux. My employer at the time did look at SCO, but WFWG solved the problem for us.

But your sequencing is dead on. It's a messy story.

[justinlardinois]

Ah. I think the original commenter was referring to the lawsuits, not to SCO's business model when it actually had products and services.