From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 14973 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2021 00:19:11 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 Mar 2021 00:19:11 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 066C893DC0; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:19:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D77193D1B; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:18:47 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0C9EF93D1B; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:18:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3835793D06 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 10:18:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 43CA335E34F; Sat, 20 Mar 2021 17:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 17:18:43 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Wesley Parish Message-ID: <20210321001843.GX2912@mcvoy.com> References: <20210320115018.GA9713@naleco.com> <20210320151632.GM2912@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, Josh Good Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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 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. > > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm