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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14397)	11/24/1997 2:01:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Unix Developer Escapes Costly Microsoft Deal techweb.com This article actually explains the deal. European competition officials ruled that the agreement was anticompetitive. They said that by requiring SCO to add useless code and to pay royalties "in perpetuity," the agreement impeded the technical development of SCO's Unix products and hampered competition with Microsoft. The move is expected to save SCO $4 million per year, mostly in royalty payments, and it should result in speedier and more efficient releases of Unix products, Geoff Seabrook, SCO's senior vice president of international operations, told TechWeb Monday. "We were being forced to go through a major engineering effort to put code into our products that no one wanted," he said. It also explains that this was for some kind of bogus Xenix compatibility, under terms negotiated by AT&T. Let it never be said that AT&T knew what it was doing with Unix, ever. Too bad they didn't give it away to someone who knew what they were doing, when it would have still made a difference. The Microsoft legal eagles leave their mark again. Cheers, Dan.

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