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 20912 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2021 01:12:56 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 21 Mar 2021 01:12:56 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B997B93FAD; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:12:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD6193D1B; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:12:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9B0F693D1B; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:12:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A3993D06 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:12:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (unknown [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8FB28141; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 01:12:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 308842635BE; Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:12:17 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:12:17 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Larry McVoy Message-ID: <20210321011217.GA60525@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20210320115018.GA9713@naleco.com> <20210320151632.GM2912@mcvoy.com> <20210321001843.GX2912@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210321001843.GX2912@mcvoy.com> Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) 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" --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmBWnXEACgkQIubykFB6QiMB5ACeN34lIXHjd06HXkoinjDo0SNa 5XQAn0l7eoR1lObxW0dMZYeYpJ6YkQIK =zJkQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--