“I promised you more AIX/Monterey/POWER research, and here it
is. First, let’s review. We’ve already established that a primary
purpose of Project Monterey was to provide a stepping stone to
Linux, and that IBM clearly stated this in promotional and
technical materials, some of which SCO participated in
publishing.“AIX 5L (the L standing of Linux affinity) was a stopgap
operating system, so Unix users would stay with the operating
system until Linux was fully ready for the enterprise. And we’ve
learned that IBM began contributing to Linux at least as far back
as 1998, and that it was public knowledge…”
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