BTW... and this is entirely speculation... what happens to software if the copyright owner is defunct? It's not like SCO is going to leave a will or an estate. Is it at this point that M$ buys the ...what? ...copyrights? ...SCO? outright for nothing in a short stock trade? Remember this?

NOW it's getting interesting! This might be very very important. SCO is pretty much a starving, almost-dead, shrivelled, emaciated near-corpse and for all that, is making quite a racket. They haven't been able to ship a compelling product in years. Any time I've ever had to support SCO Unix I've hated it. ALL of the other UNIXes are much more amenable to easy administration, and a lot more of the usual tools you'd expect are there. Anyway, what happens if SCO folds up and goes out of business? How bad would it be if Microsoft bought the leftovers of SCO and decided to continue the fight, just for fun? Could Microsoft afford to litigate Linux into oblivion? At least in the US anyway? Finally, would it be possible to get concerned Linux users together to buy SCO? Or at least to buy the scraps if they folded up? Maybe then we could officially bequeath UNIX to the public domain... If each angry concerned Linux user out there put $100 into this cause, could we do it? Dave... -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml