Sco claim is Invalid. 3014
That wasn't the point of Linux. The point of its creation was that Linus Torvalds wanted to hack around with an 80386 kernel, and found Minix too limiting.
If things had "turned out differently," it would more likely have been in the form of Linux being a flash-in-the-pan curiosity where people would have flocked instead to one of the BSD-386 forks, likely FreeBSD or NetBSD.
I have a copy of the first edition, copyright 1987,and there's no place for disks in the book. There is a form at the back, to order them. Binary and source for various IBM...
It was NOT in the cards for people to flock to SCO instead...
Ah, but consider: The one Major Financial Success that Caldera has ever had was when they won the lawsuit against Microsoft over the DR-DOS situation. (Where Microsoft wrote Windows to make it look as though it was incompatible with DR-DOS...)
They made more tens-of-millions off that than they got from anything else.
It would seem that what happened next was that they drank way too much champagne at the victory party after that lawsuit, and convinced themselves that if they were able to outwit Microsoft's lawyers, they could outwit IBM's lawyers. All being equal, that would actually seem pretty reasonable, as Microsoft evidently has sharper lawyers than IBM.
The only problem is that they didn't actually have a decent case to use against IBM... -- Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits. -- Alan Perlis
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