Re: [SLUG] SCO makes Unix copyright claim

From: bpreece1 (bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 15:33:51 EDT


I don't know but I am tired to SCO's Bull.
They still do not say what was stolen in straight English.
Next Novell still holds the rights. Which they now support!

Truth of the matter is that Sco has not been doing that well for a long
time.
Then they dug a deeper ditch when they bought Caldera another loosing
company!
Then they Sign a deal with Microsoft which sounds like a plant deal to
undermine the Community.

Not to mention that way back in the Day both SCO and Microsoft had a deal
then remember XENIX!
In 1979, Microsoft licensed UNIX directly from AT&T, but couldn't license
the UNIX name, so it called its UNIX variant Microsoft XENIX.
Microsoft XENIX was initially an Intel 8086 port of AT&T UNIX Version 7 with
some BSD-like enhancements. This became Microsoft/SCO XENIX 3.0 a year or so
later. SCO XENIX 5.0 was updated to conform to AT&T UNIX System V Release 0
(SVR0) in 1983, for which SCO brought its own rights to the UNIX source
code. By then, XENIX had the largest installed base of any UNIX system
during the early 1980s.

Microsoft acquired a 25 percent share of SCO, which at the time gave it a
controlling interest. While SCO handled the actual development and added
some enhancements of its own, Microsoft handled the marketing of the
product, which it touted as the "Microcomputer Operating System of the
Future!"

A 1980 issue of Microsoft Quarterly stated, "The XENIX system's inherent
flexibility . will make the XENIX OS the standard operating system for the
computers of the '80s." The 1983 XENIX Users' Manual declared, "Microsoft
announces the XENIX Operating System, a 16 bit adaptation of Bell
Laboratories UNIXT Operating System. We have enhanced the UNIX software for
our commercial customer base, and ported it to popular 16-bit
microprocessors. We've put the XENIX OS on the DEC® PDP-11T, Intel® 8086,
Zilog® Z8000 and Motorola® 68000." It went on to warn against "so-called
UNIX-like" products. Similar sentiments were echoed in ads for Microsoft
XENIX in the UNIX Review and UNIX World magazines as late as 1984. That's
when Microsoft and SCO had a parting of the ways.

Microsoft did not sell Xenix to end-users but instead licensed the software
to software OEMs such as Intel, Tandy, Altos and SCO who then provided a
finished version of their own Xenix to the end-users or other customers.

Can we say rehash?

Conclusions
1. Microsoft realizes there is an even more threat by the Open Source
Community so they do a last ditch effort and start a series of things. By
Possibly appointing a person to have maneuver into a position to be poised
as a CEO for SCO.

2. By holding a 25 percent share of SCO, which at the time gave it a
controlling interest they elect this guy into power.

3. Then once in power they have him contact Novell and try to get rights to
stuff they never owned at the Same time sign a public deal to Microsoft to
have certain parts they could ad to XP 2003 Windows.

4. When they realize by trying to do this they would undermine the two key
competitors Novell, and Linux! Oh and not to mention IBM.Because IBM also
was working with Caldera, S.u.S.E., Red Hat, and Turbo Linux. Hmm 3/4 of the
United Partners!

5. You see they thought this would be a 2 for one shot. Again the predatory
attacks start to dominate, how ever thanks to Novell's CEO he has basically
told them to shut up and that for that very reason they will never get the
Rights from Novell.

6. In the back ground the next plan of attack was to work on United Linux
with S.u.S.E. Conectiva, the SCO Group, and Turbolinux
which this could also be used as an attempt to say hey we now have these
companies customer base information not to mention they could use this to
Sabotage the whole project at the same time try to give the Community a
black eye. Thus driving Customers and people wanting and thinking to try
Linux away. Making people think that Linux community is thieves and that
they don't know what they are doing. Thu smaking it easier to spread FUD.

This is easy to see what is going on. Hopefully IBM will buy them and fire
the CEO and clean the crap out.

Later
Bill Preece

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Subject: [SLUG] SCO makes Unix copyright claim

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