http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2001...compaq_dc.html
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Mmmm...big companies :)
It really will be a monster of a company. All we need now is for Microsoft to buy unix ;)
They already tried a long time ago.
You can't buy Unix :D
I'm glad that Compaq and their **** products will be gone forever.
yeah they could buy unix. there's a company that owns the intellectual rights to it. cant remember the name ... has an X in it though
There's the X Consortium, but they do X Windows not Unix.
They didn't buy Unix, but they tried to buy something like that.
If M$ want to make a version of Unix I don't think there's anything stopping them. They can't prevent others from doing the same though.
Nah there is some company that owns the rights tho.
Koz I saw it on the front of a Sco Unix box.
Not SCO themselves, but some other company in the states
As I understand it, Unix is open-source due to some ancient legal thing that was intended to prevent a Unix monopoly. If Unix has already been made available through an open license, the intellectual property isn't incredibly valuable because other companies can make their own Unix versions.
I hope HP remembered to buy the Compaq extended warranty :p