> From: Jeff Shultz 
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 07:52:54 +0000, Adam Flinton wrote:
>> What happens if IBM arch'es AIX kernel & HP arch'es the HPUX
kernel & Sun
>> the SunOS kernel etc so that they can be swapped in & out in the same
>> manner?
> You get another SCO lawsuit...

But given that the sco unix is simply a kernel surrounded by OSS
components...gcc..samba...apache...

e.g.:

"       
SCO OpenServer 5.0.7
Discover What's New
Hardware Support

    * USB features with a UDI-based implementation (USB 2.0 compliant subsystem
supports bootable CD-ROM, USB hard drives and floppies, keyboards, mice, and hubs)
    * Ultra DMA 100/133 support
    * Updated PC-Card and new Card-Bus support
    * PCI Serial and Parallel card support for legacy-free platforms
    * LS-120/240 drive support
    * Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon XP, AMD Athlon MP 

Integration of Open Source Tools

    * Java JDK 1.3.1 and Java runtime
    * Graphics, Web, and X-11 libraries
    * Samba, Squid, OpenSSL, and OpenSSH
    * BIND, FTP, IP Filter, PHP, XML, ASP
    * DocView (online documentation system)
    * libc from SCO UnixWare 7.1.3
    * GNU Compiler Collection, GNU debugger, GNU diff, wget, and CVS
    * Mozilla and Netscape Communicator
    * UnixWare and OpenServer Development Kit 7.1.3 "


Adam

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