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

[John Abreau]

Now that I think about it, we also tried SCO Unix after trying Xenix; that
may have been the one where I couldn't install sendmail. In any case, the
DOS-based WAFFLE system was the system that we finally got working and that
became the first BCS mail server.


On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 4:15 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> 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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>> Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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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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