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SCO Back in the Linux Game? Wanna Buy a Bridge?

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Published: Jun 19, 2006

Updated: Feb 2, 2021

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Would you believe that The SCO Group, enemy of all things Linux, will be releasing a Linux distribution?

Thats what a purported press release from an SCO-owned site in Germany, OpenLinux, claimed over the weekend. It was a fake.

Before the truth was revealed though, it seems to have fooled at least a few people on Slashdot and other online technology discussion Web sites.

Heres what the “press release” said:

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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