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29/01/1999 19:58:19
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00180351
Message ID:
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>Hi again Dragan!
>
>Nope....someone else bought them I think but not MS....anyway, at the time, SCO FoxBase was a product of Fox Software and I don't think that MS was even near thinking about the acquisition.
>
>
>>While we're at it... I vaguely remember that MS bought SCO back then. If my checksum("RAM") is OK, no wonder they didn't support other flavors, just plain vanilla SCO.

I believe MS once owned 20% of SCO as a hedge in case Unix won the OS wars. They liquidated their shares when the hedge was deemed unnecessary.
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