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Linux Heavily Used in the Enterprise by 1999 – And SCO Knew It or Could/Should Have

“Remember how SCO told the court in SCO v. IBM that Linux wasn’t
ready for the enterprise until IBM got involved in the year 2000
and allegedly worked to make it “hardened” for the enterprise by
donating code? It said that it wasn’t until 2001, with version 2.4
of Linux, that Linux was ready for enterprise use. Linux, SCO said,
was just a bicycle compared to UNIX, the luxury car, until IBM did
all that.

“Not only is that chronology not true, I think I can show you
evidence that SCO knew it was not true or could have and should
have known. Just in case the case ramps up again in some form, I
thought it would be good to add the evidence to our
collection.”

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