From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: neozeed@gmail.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:56:52 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Novell and Ancient Unix In-Reply-To: References: <20110413231218.GA13201@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: I honestly wonder if the people doing the lawsuits, and the people selling stuff are even in the same continent...Then again they probably have one of those fantastic 1970's models where you buy through a reseller who masquerades as the parent company, and only sells what is on a price list or at most they can pursue a part number... It is always strange these companies that fight over old stuff like crazy, but refuse to support, or sell it... But I'll sit tight, as I know the pain of supporting MS-DOS based stuff .... in 2011. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Jason Stevens wrote: >> I tried last year and they were doing their best to sell me linux..  I >> even gave them links showing that they owned SYSV, I was asking about >> source/binary licenses, or even the ability to resell SYSV.. lol that >> got me nowhere. > > For something they fought so hard in court to own, they sure are > clueless about what they have. Still, perhaps asking about reselling > SVR4 or whatever they nominally may still have in some catalog isn't > going to get you in touch with the people who would need to be > persuaded to release some earlier stuff under an open license. > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >