From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, Josh Good <pepe@naleco.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 17:18:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210321001843.GX2912@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACNPpeaZVg34eRToOWr=uJYvoU_tfCTh=6YF=5MqyfhYG4xADw@mail.gmail.com>
Yeah, but wouldn't that mean that SCO Unix had to be open sourced? Or did
they buy the rights?
While I mostly can't believe anyone would want SCO Unix, I do know that
they ran a lot of cash registers, or maybe they were the server, I dunno,
somehow point of sale and SCO was a thing a long time ago. So maybe it
is a legacy thing?
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 01:08:55PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
> It reads as if this company was a support company for SCO sites from
> way back, and quietly carried on supporting SCO Unix sites when
> Caldera blew a fuse and became The SCO Group and started some
> unfathomably stupid lawsuits.
>
> Wesley Parish
>
> On 3/21/21, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Josh Good wrote:
> >> https://www.scosales.com/ta/kb/103649.htmlOB
> >
> > I thought SCO had long since died. Did they open source it and is this
> > company providing support?
> >
> > As fun as ancient Unix is, SCO was pretty sparse and not in a good way.
> >
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-21 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-18 9:44 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2021-03-18 11:27 ` Mike Knell via TUHS
2021-03-18 12:04 ` Jim Capp
2021-03-20 11:50 ` Josh Good
2021-03-20 15:16 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21 0:08 ` Wesley Parish
2021-03-21 0:18 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-03-21 1:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21 1:42 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-03-21 2:38 ` [TUHS] SCO marketing FreeBSD (was: Micnet, Was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21 2:43 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-03-21 3:02 ` Warner Losh
2021-03-21 3:04 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21 3:09 ` Warner Losh
2021-03-21 6:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-21 11:01 ` Harald Arnesen
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