Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix 289
jfruhlinger writes "Word came down this morning that when Attachmate bought Novell, certain intellectual property rights were sold to a Microsoft-led consortium as part of the deal. Since Unix is the most valuable piece of IP Novell owns, there was a certain amount of panic that suddenly Redmond is in charge of this foundational technology for Linux and a number of other open source projects. But, while MS is being cagey, Brian Proffitt doubts that Unix was part of the IP package that was sold — and believes that Linux would be safe even if it were."
What if.. (Score:5, Funny)
What if Novell sold them Unix, but didn't give them the root password?
Re:What if.. (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft would still sell it to customers.
Re:What if.. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure Microsoft can afford a $5 wrench.
Re:What if.. (Score:5, Funny)
While that would work on the average Crypto Nerd - I think you underestimate the die-harded-ness of Linux users who would fight to the death to defend the freedom of Open Source. Why do you think Stallman sleeps with swords?
I certainly hope so (Score:5, Funny)
A Microsoft Unix 2013 Professional Edition doesn't exactly give me pleasant imagery.
Re:Linux Is Not UniX (Score:5, Funny)
A spoon may not be a fork, but a spork is a fork of a spoon.
Pun intended.
Re:What if? (Score:5, Funny)
What if you sucked 10,000 cocks per second?
.. then you would have a 10KHz CPU (cock processing unit).
Re:What if.. (Score:3, Funny)
You'll do what stallman says, or else...
Re:Enough! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:We are Microsoft of Gates (Score:2, Funny)
That's going to be one nasty diff...
Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What if.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What if.. (Score:3, Funny)
Nah. Maybe he'd finally finish hurd (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html).
Think different (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I certainly hope so (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What if.. (Score:5, Funny)
~# kill -9 268025
To the pain (Score:5, Funny)
Ballmer: And next will be my kernel I suppose, let's get on with it.
Stallman: WRONG! Your kernel you keep and I'll tell you why. It's so that every missed IRQ, every dropped packet, every sysadmin who wanders by and says "My God what is that abomination" will fall upon your unused IO buffers unserviced.
Re:FUD parade continues on... (Score:4, Funny)
Linux really, really, really isn't Unix.
So... its now lrrrinux?
Re:Enough! (Score:3, Funny)
Ahhhhhh!... Brainbleach. Stat!
Re:Microsoft being cagey (Score:2, Funny)
Remember, they already own the codebase of Windoze...
That's a billion dollars worth of FAIL, not FUD.
Re:What if.. (Score:1, Funny)
They could call it Ubuntu.