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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.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: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:12:17 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210321011217.GA60525@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210321001843.GX2912@mcvoy.com>

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On Saturday, 20 March 2021 at 17:18:43 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Yeah, but wouldn't that mean that SCO Unix had to be open sourced?
> Or did they buy the rights?

They didn't "open source" SCO, but in January 2002 they released
"ancient Unix" under a "BSD-style" license.  See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/
But I'm sure everybody knows that.

> 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?

I haven't been following SCO recently, but at some point they had
taken UnixWare from Novell.  I'm sure that, too, is common knowledge.

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-21  1:12 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
2021-03-21  1:12           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
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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