SCO Unix Intellectual Property Pedigree Chart

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (Nathan Meyers)]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:01:54AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Many of us have seen flow charts of Unix history. SCO has placed one of
> these charts on their website. 
> http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html

Boy, nothing gets the LUG discussion juices flowing like Unix history :-).

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net

> It seems that they have tagged the green bar as SCO LInux Pedigree. 
> It would seem that one looking at this chart would infer that SCO had
> some stake in the development of Linux. While Caldera has been around
> for a while as a Linux distro, I am unaware that they contributed
> anything significant back to Linux (or FSF and other Open Source
> software).