[Discuss] The Register: IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos

Jerry Feldman gaf.linux at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 13:38:05 EDT 2021


The first BCS mail server was xenix then upgraded to Sco Unix. I had SCO
Unix on my home computer years ago. I think the server was an unused IBM
PS2.

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 10:50 AM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some of us are old enough to remember The Santa Cruz Operation was the
> preferred provider of legally licensed System III Unix or Xenix. (Before
> the Caldera folks did the reverse merge taking the good name.)
>
> We ran that on Onyx Z8000 for dev servers back when, and I had a client
> with System III on a 386 with two 8xSerial cards.
>
> Alas this story of the zombie arising yet again to eat more brainz is on
> too many sites to be April Fools but it should be!
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 10:06 Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We remember the ongoing suit of SCO vs IBM which also was an attack on
>> Linux. And we remember, The SCO Group which was originally the Linux
>> distro
>> Caldera. Many of us watched Groklaw religiously. I guess it is time for a
>> new web site.
>>
>>
>> The Register: IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO
>> Group
>> successor Xinuos.
>>
>> https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/03/31/ibm_redhat_xinuos/
>>
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