From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: djenner@earthlink.net (David C. Jenner) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 18:33:34 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM? References: <20030310012147.GB94647@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <3E6BF97E.773E2F62@earthlink.net> Greg, I can't properly read your pdf attachment. Some of us have a signed, dated, and numbered license and paid $100 for it! Dave Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I'm sure I'm not the only person who sees SCO's recent legal > activities with dismay. For those of you still looking for facts, > take a look at the links off http://www.sco.com/scosource/, and > particularly the complaint at > http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html. There are a > number of things there which concern me, but particularly: > > 85. For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the > simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on > the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can > successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous > operation. This difference in memory management performance > is very significant to enterprise customers who need extremely > high computing capabilities for complex tasks. The ability to > accomplish this task successfully has taken AT&T, Novell and > SCO at least 20 years, with access to expensive equipment for > design and testing, well-trained UNIX engineers and a wealth > of experience in UNIX methods and concepts. > > Apart from the fact that I can't see any factual evidence that System > V as licensed from SCO or its predecessors had any competitive SMP > scalability, the "20 years" concerns me. That could go back to the > days of the Seventh Edition. > > Which brings me to the real point: a little over a year ago, we > received a message from Dion Johnson releasing Ancient UNIX under a > BSD licence. For those of you who have misplaced it, I'm attaching it > again. While none of us doubt that it is genuine, SCO has no record > of it on their web site, nor (as far as I know) do any of us have this > in signed form. In view of SCO's aggression, I think we should > contact them and ask them to at least put the statement somewhere on > their web site. > > Comments? > > Greg > -- > Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Liberal license for ancient UNIX sources > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:03:37 -0800 > From: Dion Johnson > To: wht at minnie.tuhs.org > CC: dmr at bell-labs.com, ken at plan9.bell-labs.com, grog at lemis.com, > John Terpstra , drew at caldera.com, maddog at li.org, > evan at starnix.com, phatch at caldera.com, ransom at caldera.com > > Dear Warren, and friends, > > I'm happy to let you know that Caldera International has placed > the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a "BSD-style" license. > I've attached a PDF of the license letter hereto. Feel free to > propogate it as you see fit. > > I apologize that this has taken so long. We do not have a well > regulated archive of these ancient releases, so we must depend > upon you UNIX enthusiasts, historians, and original authors to > help the community of interested parties figure out exactly what > is available, where, and how. > > Many thanks to Warren Toomey, of PUPS, and to Caldera's Bill > Broderick, director of licensing services here. Both of these > gentlemen were instrumental in making this happen. And thanks > to our CEO, Ransom Love, whose vision for Caldera International > prescribes cooperation and mutual respect for the open source > communities. > > Of course, there are thousands of other people who should be > acknowledged. I regret I do not have time or wisdom to make > a list of them all, but maybe someone does, or has. > > Anyway, here it is. Feel free to write to us if you want to > understand more about how/why Caldera International has released > this code, or you have any other comments that we should hear. > > Sincerely, > > Dion L. Johnson II - dionj at caldera.com > Product Manager and one of many open source enthusiasts in Caldera Intl. > > Paul Hatch - phatch at caldera.com > Public Relations Manager at Caldera International > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: ancient-source-all.pdf > ancient-source-all.pdf Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: quoted-printable > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- David C. Jenner djenner at earthlink.net