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  1. Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.advocacy:11138 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:3527
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  3. From: gordt@cyberspc.muug.mb.ca (Gord Tulloch)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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  7. Message-ID: <725634531gordt.gordt@cyberspc.muug.mb.ca>
  8. Sender: gordt@cyberspc.muug.mb.ca
  9. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:08:51 GMT
  10. Summary: SCO XENIX is Microsoft's
  11. References: <28DEC199212022792@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1992Dec28.222355.0200785@locus.com> <29DEC199209503697@moose.cccs.umn.edu>
  12. Followup-To: gordt@cyberspc.muug.mb.ca
  13. Organization: Cyberspace Online Information System
  14. Keywords: XENIX
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  16.  
  17. In article <29DEC199209503697@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
  18. >In article <1992Dec28.222355.0200785@locus.com>, lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison) writes:
  19.  
  20. [ stuff deleted ]
  21.  
  22. >> And since MS was the producer of SCO-Xenix
  23. >> I don't think they come off lilly white there either. 
  24. >
  25. >Actually MS is (or was) a minority shareholder of SCO.  I don't know if they
  26. >had any hand in the actual development of XENIX.  My impression was that they
  27. >simply resold a relabeled 80x8x version it as MS-XENIX.
  28. >
  29.  
  30. Microsoft developed XENIX and sold it to SCO - for shares and $$$ probably.
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