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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 28 11:57:56 2016
    has anyone successfully gotten SCO binaries to run on a Linux box?

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  • From mbennett@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jul 29 10:03:38 2016
    On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 1:57:58 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    has anyone successfully gotten SCO binaries to run on a Linux box?

    You mean operating system binaries in a non-VM environment? Or do you mean application binaries?

    At one time I knew a guy who thought he could take the binary libraries from the SCO development kit and place them on a Linux system, and they would work. I'm pretty sure it's a violation of the SCO license, and I'm not aware that he ever tried it, or
    that it worked. I thought at the time he was just talking about it, and it was in the general time frame of the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit.

    There are some applications I sell that are written with COBOL and all they really need are different runtimes. The binary code is the same. Most flavors of COBOL are owned by Microfocus now, so that might be a place to look as regards application
    portability.

    Good luck.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jul 29 10:11:19 2016
    On Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 2:57:58 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
    has anyone successfully gotten SCO binaries to run on a Linux box?

    I believe this project is dead:
    http://linux-abi.sourceforge.net/

    But I think it would be legal to use SCO libraries if you licensed them. And I think that was part of SCO's plan back in the Caldera days.

    Look into SCO OpenServer 10 at xinuos.com

    I'm not sure if it will be answer.

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