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

[John Abreau]

That's not entirely accurate. I attempted to build the first BCS mail
server on a Xenix system, but never got it working, as Xenix was neither
BSD nor System V, and the system we had didn't include any developer tools,
so I was unable to compile and install sendmail.

I eventually dropped Xenix and installed a DOS BBS called WAFFLE that
exchanged email via UUCP and used Internet style RFC822 email addresses.
The WAFFLE system was our first mail server.

A year later, Mike DeGenio, the BCS Resource Center Manager, approved my
request to use the NeXT machine in the BCS Resource Center to replace the
WAFFLE system. Originally we had planned on running it as the mail server
without removing it from use in the Resource Center, but then the
leadership of the BCS NeXT SIG unilaterally decided to sabotage the project
by locking me out of the system.

To be fair, I had tried an experiment that broke the window system, and I
was too exhausted after a very long day at the BCS office to diagnose the
problem, so I figured I'd go home and fix it the next day when I was
rested. I emailed the NeXT SIG's leaders before I headed home to let them
know, and when I arrived the next day, I found they had sent me an email
demanding that I leave it alone and let them fix it. I didn't want to step
on any toes, so I left it to them. A few days later I discovered that they
locked me out by changing the root password and adding a BIOS lockout to
prevent single-user booting, but they didn't fix the window system.

Mike DeGenio lost his temper after hearing about that, then he pulled the
machine out of the Resource Center entirely and told me to just make it a
dedicated mail server. Bypassing the BIOS lockout took about an hour of
digging through USENET for FAQs about the NeXT machine. After that, since I
wasn't overly tired, it took just a few minutes to figure out what went
wrong and to restore the window system.

In any case, the NeXT machine was the second BCS mail server, and a year
later, after the BCS office moved from Cambridge to Waltham, we replaced
the NeXT machine with a Slackware Linux mail server.


On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 1:39 PM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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