Re: Working Within the System

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 13:22:51 MDT


>
> If it's of any interest I spent nearly four years inside SCO, working
> first on SCO UNIX (release 5) and then on the SCO OpenServer 5.0 project
> (which ran for about three years), documenting internals. (The Linux field
> came as a breath of fresh air after commercial UNIX, I can tell you.)

I can verify that too--before Microsoft I worked with Microport, who
put out a competing SVR4 Unix to SCO. The legal hoops we had to jump
through to keep the AT&T folks and the Motif folks and everyone else happy
made Microsoft look like a saint.

--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC



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