google isn't cooperating:
http://www.caldera.com/skunkware/
in regards to a question i posted earlier about unix.
Sorry about delay in replying. Been up to my eyeballs fixing a bad DDOS
attack for a local company.
"skunkworks" is an old engineering term used loosely to refer to a small
group of engineers brainstorming projects sometimes completely off the
wall
..
"The skunk works was the unofficial name for the Lockheed Advanced
Development Projects Unit[?] and was the production unit responsible for a
number of famous aircraft, including the U-2, the SR-71, and the F-117.
Skunk works also refers to a unit within a company that attempts to use
the techniques of the original skunk works. Skunk works is also used to
refer to projects undertaken by engineers without the knowledge or
approval of company management. Famous examples of successful skunk works
include the porting of Linux to the IBM S/390 series of mainframes."
Interestingly,
"The name came from the popular comic strip Li'l Abner by cartoonist Al
Capp. In the comic, the Skonk Works was a small factory whose business
used skunks (the exact nature of this enterprise was never explained). The
Skonk Works was located far from other human habitation due to the
terrible odor, and people who worked at the Skonk Works could only
communicate with people of the outside world by yelling at them from a
great distance while downwind.
On the request of the copyright holders, Lockheed changed the name of the
development facility to Skunk Works."
http://www.caldera.com/skunkware/
is a mirror of
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/
(SCO still owns the Caldera trademark)
Everything seems genuine but it begs the question who the hell is still
using UnixWare? Certainly not Autozone, Bank Of America, or the rest of
their customers they've threatened to sue!
Regards
Gordon
