From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:19:46 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Novell, not SCO, found to own "Unix" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 3/29/18, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On this day in 2010, it was found unanimously that Novell, not SCO, owned > "Unix". SCO appealed later, and it was dismissed "with prejudice"; SCO > shares plummeted as a result. A pox on both their houses, IMO. And apparently the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit is still alive. The situation is almost farcical. > what sort of an idiot would take on IBM? Back in the 1960s IBM was facing two antitrust lawsuits over alleged attempts to use its dominant market position to freeze the HPTC market while they attempted to complete and ship the long-delayed System/360 model 90. One lawsuit was brought by the Justice Department and famously dragged on in court for a decade. CDC also filed a civil lawsuit. CDC's lawyers built a computerized database of all the IBM internal documents that they found during the discovery phase of suit. IBM and CDC settled out of court. IBM gave its Service Bureau Corporation subsidiary to CDC and agreed to stay out of the service bureau business for 10 years. CDC agreed to destroy the database of IBM internal documents. The Justice Department tried but failed to get access to the CDC database for their own lawsuit. -Paul W.