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A fact from Santa Cruz Operation appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Operation later said that they had "every type of relationship with Microsoft you can imagine"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Santa Cruz Operation.

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Messy references in the article[edit]

Hello, anybody hanging around being able to clear the messy references section? Thank you foryour time. Lotje (talk) 12:36, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Lotje: It's in progress, by me, as my edit summary on the big expansion indicated. By the end of today it should all be good. Wasted Time R (talk) 13:11, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Wasted Time R: big relief :-) I do not like these red texts in the articles. Thanks! Lotje (talk) 14:01, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 19:09, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in many ways the Santa Cruz Operation, a computer software company, reflected the nature of the place for which it was named?
- ALT1:... that the Santa Cruz Operation prospered from the "open systems" movement but fell victim to the "open source" movement?
- ALT2:... that one of the founders of the Santa Cruz Operation later said that "we had every type of relationship with Microsoft you can imagine"?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sather Professorship of Classical Literature

5x expanded by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 13:52, 16 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

As someone who saw this article years ago, it's great to see how far it has gone. The copyvio detector detected two quoted block quotes, which are appropriately used in the article so I can safely disregard that. I'm glad to approve this nomination, though I'm a bit disinclined to go with the first proposed hook; I'm inclined to go with ALT2 since it would be more relatable to non-open source nerds, but I want to see what others think. Otherwise though, congratulations! --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 02:45, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Main content: Doug Michels[edit]

Could someone add this person to wikipedia? He appeared in this documentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yas19evqcT8

I would like to know what happened to him after SCO. 2A02:8388:1641:4980:0:0:0:D (talk) 00:09, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(To clarify the above: he is currently mentioned in the article, but no wikipedia page about him shows up on wikipedia.) 2A02:8388:1641:4980:0:0:0:D (talk) 00:10, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what Doug is doing these days. He was doing high-level consulting to startups and sitting on a couple of boards, but don't know if any of those activities are still ongoing. Wasted Time R (talk) 23:00, 27 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]