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Have a look at a linux Q and A page:
www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html

Scroll down to the bottom.

It looks like someone at SCO left a work in progress on the web server.

It's not obvious how you would find a link to it from SCO's web page,
but Google knows about it.

I had a look and it does seem rather odd. I'd call it a shining
example of their professionalism.

Maybe Darl has taken up coding because their money is better
spent on lawyers than programmers.



On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:06:51 +0000, Joe Dunning wrote:

> Have a look at a linux Q and A page:
> www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html
>
> Scroll down to the bottom.
>
> It looks like someone at SCO left a work in progress on the web server.
>
> It's not obvious how you would find a link to it from SCO's web page,
> but Google knows about it.

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:54:27 GMT, Pat <Pat35o2k@devnull.com> wrote:

>Maybe Darl has taken up coding because their money is better
>spent on lawyers than programmers.

In a way that could be good--if Darl actually knew something about code
and programming, he might actually become capable of saying something
intelligent about the UNIX source code. As for me, I can barely code my
way out of a wet paper bag in dBase III+ code, but even *I* know that
McBride's strictly talking out of his hat and has no real idea what he's
talking about.

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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:06:51 GMT, joe@blahblah.invalid (Joe Dunning)
wrote:

>Have a look at a linux Q and A page:
>www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html
>Scroll down to the bottom.
>It looks like someone at SCO left a work in progress on the web server.

Yep. Looks like the typical mess generated by MS Word 2003.

See:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/linuxlicensefaq.html
for the clean version. It's been there for at least a month, when I
read it last. There's a link to it on the scosource web page as "IP
License for Linux FAQ".

>It's not obvious how you would find a link to it from SCO's web page,
>but Google knows about it.

Did you see the chart at:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtre...history01.html


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Joe Dunning <joe@blahblah.invalid> wrote:
>Have a look at a linux Q and A page:
>www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html

>Scroll down to the bottom.

>It looks like someone at SCO left a work in progress on the web server.

Or just stupidly misunderstood what Word was going to do with their edits.

>It's not obvious how you would find a link to it from SCO's web page,
>but Google knows about it.

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:17:38 +0000 (UTC), Tony Lawrence
<apl@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

>Joe Dunning <joe@blahblah.invalid> wrote:
>>Have a look at a linux Q and A page:
>>www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html
>
>>Scroll down to the bottom.
>
>>It looks like someone at SCO left a work in progress on the web server.
>
>Or just stupidly misunderstood what Word was going to do with their edits.

"Stupidly" can at least describe the use of Word to create/edit an HTML
document. I'd heard that Word was about the worst as far as HTML bloat was
concerned--in this case an HTML document that is almost exclusively text
(except for the strike throughs and a small table) comes out twice the
size of the basic text!

Plus there's the matter of a *nix company using a Windows word processor
to edit HTML. I'd say SCO's credibility as a company just dropped a couple
of notches with me, but I don't know if they have that many left. :-)


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JamesDad <mewnewsARROGANCE@mailandnews.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:17:38 +0000 (UTC), Tony Lawrence
><apl@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

>>Joe Dunning <joe@blahblah.invalid> wrote:
>>>Have a look at a linux Q and A page:
>>>www.sco.com/scosource/linuxqanda.html
>>
>>>Scroll down to the bottom.
>>
>>>It looks like someone at SCO left a work in progress on the web server.
>>
>>Or just stupidly misunderstood what Word was going to do with their edits.

>"Stupidly" can at least describe the use of Word to create/edit an HTML
>document. I'd heard that Word was about the worst as far as HTML bloat was
>concerned--in this case an HTML document that is almost exclusively text
>(except for the strike throughs and a small table) comes out twice the
>size of the basic text!

>Plus there's the matter of a *nix company using a Windows word processor
>to edit HTML. I'd say SCO's credibility as a company just dropped a couple
>of notches with me, but I don't know if they have that many left. :-)

Oh, heck, they've been doing that crap for years. I complained once about
price lists being posted in Excel.

Sun has that "eat your own dog food" motto, and SCO would have been
smart to do the same, but of course they never were.


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In article <i0dcrvcgel6299g59s623qu4h5ko2qm1o5@4ax.com>,
JamesDad <mewnewsARROGANCE@mailandnews.com> wrote:

>Plus there's the matter of a *nix company using a Windows word
>processor to edit HTML. I'd say SCO's credibility as a company
>just dropped a couple of notches with me, but I don't know if
>they have that many left. :-)

That argument has been used against others - and it's not a real
argument. A couple of years ago there was a big bruhaha about
Sun using MS machines and MS products instead of the StarOffice.

MS products do run a vast majority of offices in the US and tyring
to hire someone who knows how to write documentation using
nroff/troff and the associated macros is pretty hard - unless they
are retired Bell employees who used to write manuals there.

Bill Campbell posted a story [here on in another NG/list]about a
woman in an office where his wife worked [as I recall] who was so
much more efficient that the others they had to find out why she
was so productive.

It turns out she did all her work in vi and then just imported into
Word.


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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:09:32 GMT, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

>Yep. Looks like the typical mess generated by MS Word 2003.

I forgot to include the fix:
Demoronizer: Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/


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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:09:32 GMT, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

>Yep. Looks like the typical mess generated by MS Word 2003.

I looked at the HTML and the headers stated that it was generated by Word
10, more commonly known as Word XP. Office 10 is XP, Office 11 is 2003.
Probably not much different in results, though. If anything, 2003 would
probably be worse. ;-)


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