On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 03:14, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Tuesday 20 May 2003 00:49, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote: > > Can someone summarise this? > > MS is licensing the code which it once owned. They licensed Unix from > AT&T Bell Labs, then portd it to many platforms and called it Xeinix. > Then the IBM PC came and they sold their Unix business all to a company > called SCO and SCO renamed it to OpenServer or something like that. > Now, they are licensing back their code. And with this they are helping > SCO not go bankrupt, and stand against IBM in the court. > > Summary ! > > Cheers > > > DM > > > > On Mon, 19 May 2003 14:10:25 -0400 "Antonio Rodriguez" > > <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > > -- > /* There is SCO owned IP all over the Linux kernel. SCO will hunt them. > Free software infidels are liars. We will kill them all, and roast their > stomach in hell. Our estimates show that all slashodot viewers will die. > --Mohammad Al-Sahhaf, SCO Sopkeman, Former Iraqi information > minister*/ > > Aryan Ameri IIRC, in creating SVR4, AT&T (with Sun's assistance) merged SVR3 (from AT&T) BSD-based SunOS and some of Xenix to create the codebase/functionality, in the interest of creating a "unified UNIX." The result was DEC, DG, Apollo, HP and IBM, among others, created a rival Unix, eventually intended to be free of AT&T code out of fear that the SVR4 codebase would favour Sun unduly. The result was OSF 1, which did ship for at least the Digital Alpha systems. I wonder how "clean shop" it was, compared to Linux? -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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