SCO is a corporation that is the solely licensed distributor of the core UNIX code that can claim direct lineage descent from the original UNIX developed by AT&T Bell Labs in the late '60s and '70s. A few years ago, SCO (under Darl MacBride's "leadership") decided to sue IBM for infringing its copyright by incorporating code from SCO's UnixWare product into the Linux kernel. Of course, IBM has maintained all along that SCO is full of crap, and kept asking the judge(s) hearing the case to demand that SCO produce evidence of such acts on the part of IBM. Thus far, SCO has failed to produce much of anything that it claimed was evidence, what it has produced has always been extremely late, and it still hasn't produced anything that looks solid enough to use for anything beyond toilet paper
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SCO started out as the Santa Cruz Operation. It has a long and turbulent history with Microsoft; they acquired Xenix (MS' version of Un*x for 16-bit computers) from MS in exchange for a 25% stake in SCO. Xenix then later became SCO Unix. After some protracted legal wrangling over the payment of Xenix royalties, MS and SCO ended their partnership in the late 90s.
Eventually SCO, through some complicated partnerships involving Novell and Caldera, acquired the right to the Unix name. Caldera (OpenLinux) then bought most of SCO's IP, and eventually renamed itself the SCO Group.
And then MS, in a move that puzzled the hell out of everyone, decided to license Unix from SCO in 2003, right about the time SCO launched its IP infringement suits. COINCIDENCE? ;-)
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None of this bullshit would have happened if they hadn't hired Darl McBride. He's the Svengali behind SCO's IP circus act.
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Excuse me? What a moron.
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SCO started out as the Santa Cruz Operation. It has a long and turbulent history with Microsoft; they acquired Xenix (MS' version of Un*x for 16-bit computers) from MS in exchange for a 25% stake in SCO. Xenix then later became SCO Unix. After some protracted legal wrangling over the payment of Xenix royalties, MS and SCO ended their partnership in the late 90s.
Eventually SCO, through some complicated partnerships involving Novell and Caldera, acquired the right to the Unix name. Caldera (OpenLinux) then bought most of SCO's IP, and eventually renamed itself the SCO Group.
And then MS, in a move that puzzled the hell out of everyone, decided to license Unix from SCO in 2003, right about the time SCO launched its IP infringement suits. COINCIDENCE? ;-)
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Except me, IIRC. go check my journal about that time and see what I have to say about it.
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