The end is near for SCO (hopefully)

[matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:48:06PM -0400, Jerry Natowitz wrote:
> > Putting aside the unrepentantly sleazy nature of SCO's management, does
> > anyone feel at least a tiny bit sad about the passing of SCO?
> >
> > I have a college buddy who made a good living in the early 90s selling
> > SCO-based POS systems that supported up to 150 serial terminals on a
> > single x86 box.  Yes, GNU/Linux and Solaris would be able to do the
> > same, but not for a number of years.
>
> Mnyeh. I found working with SCO UNIXen so distasteful that I
> took them all off my resume many years ago.
>
> -dsr-
>

Agreed.  Back in the days when I was a *nix newb, I used Irix, SCO and AIX.
I couldn't stand SCO, I personally preferred Irix.

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