Here's an extra bit of mud to clear things up.
One thing that isn't talked about much on all these web articles is that
, oddly enough, SCO does own the *nix source code it does NOT own the
*nix trademark -- The X/Open Company Ltd does:
http://www.unix-systems.org/trademark.html
The X/Open Company is either the parent company or does business as
(dba) as The Open Group which has 5 corporate sponsors: HP, Hitachi,
Fujitsu, Sun and <insert sinister music> I B M!
I wonder if IBM could influence the Open Group to yank SCO's use of the
*nix trademark?! I'm sure that would do wonders for the "value" of
SCO's precious-sss source.
Ed.
Paul M Foster wrote:
> In case you haven't been following it (and I hadn't until now), there's
> a story on NewsForge by ESR on how SCO is suing IBM for billions over
> IBM's "disclosure" of SCO intellectual property to the "free software"
> community. SCO bought the Unix source and IP from Novell in 1995, and
> is now looking high and low for vestiges of their IP. IBM has the
> deepest pockets, so they're the first to get sued.
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> In any case, since Caldera became SCO, they've become more and more
> hostile to the Open Source community. This present action is a direct
> threat to us. I don't want to spend too much time on this on the SLUG
> list, but it seems like a pretty important event to me.
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> Paul
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