LinuxPlanet: SCO Turns Cartwheels for SCOx

“Like an overindulged child, SCO never wants to step away from
the limelight any more. Today’s move to license Unix to Microsoft
is just the latest in a series of unexpected and often
contradictory actions from the unpredictable vendor. Take, for
example, SCO’s product plans for its annual users conference in
August. SCO’s announcement last Wednesday of intentions to stop
selling Linux came barely two months after the rollout of SCOx, a
framework touted back then as able to run on both SCO Unix and
Linux by August. Then, in an interview last Friday, SCO officials
spelled out a new set of specifics for SCOx.

“Now that SCO has stopped selling Linux, SCOx will work not with
SCO Linux, but with ‘unauthorized Unix derivatives,’ according to
Erik Hughes, SCO’s director of product management. Oh, and by the
way, SCOx won’t be running on top of the Linux kernel, either,
Hughes added during Friday’s interview with LinuxPlanet.

“Meanwhile, many folks have been wondering why SCO waited till
last week to desist from Linux when–if the company’s pending
charges against IBM bear any weight–SCO must have been aware of
intellectual property violations since at least as early as
March…”

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