[TUHS] Anyone have any luck trying to contact Micro Focus regarding Unix licensing?

[TUHS] Anyone have any luck trying to contact Micro Focus regarding Unix licensing?

[jsteve]

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I've tried calling, emails to sales, using their website and I'm getting nowhere.  I know this is more complicated than v6’s context switching …. 

I've also read that apparently Microsoft swooped in 2010 acting as CPTN Holdings and bought all the Novell patents and turned them over to GPL v2?

I know after the whole SCO personal licenses and then Ransom Loves’s making 32v and all prior open was great but apparently it wasn’t his to give away.  Or am I wrong?

Are Unix licenses transferrable?

Anyone know someone wanting to lease/loan/sell?

I don't want to kick up too much of the hornets nest.  I'd just hate to think that the original Unix is going to languish.

I know many people worked so hard to keep the “Unix lights on”, just want to see that it doesn't die clouded in secrecy like VMS.


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Re: [TUHS] Anyone have any luck trying to contact Micro Focus regarding Unix licensing?

[Clem Cole]

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:57 AM <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:

> I know after the whole SCO personal licenses and then Ransom Loves’s
> making 32v and all prior open was great but apparently it wasn’t his to
> give away.  Or am I wrong?
>
Sigh ...  Yes...   Where did you hear this?   On second thought, I really I
don't want to know...  Whomever is spreading that information is tad
uninformed and really does understand what happened.

Simply put, the AT&T case made it clear, *the technology has been published*.
 The issue is closed.  It is 'open' - free - 'libre.'  It's all public
information and has been and was required to be by the US Courts in the
AT&T / USL vs UCB/BSDi law suit.   It's really not an interesting argument
at this point. The US courts made is clear, * AT&T was required to make the
barn doors open, and horses left the barn.*

This is why >>Novell<< released the implementation (i.e. source code) and*
it was Novell's to make available - which again the US courts have already
determined. *

All of this has been discussed here and elsewhere and really does not need
to be rehashed (please). *  In fact, *I wrote and published a very long
paper about how UNIX can to be.   The presentation of same can be seen and
the paper downloaded:
http://technique-societe.cnam.fr/colloque-international-unix-en-france-et-aux-etats-unis-innovation-diffusion-et-appropriation--945215.kjsp


Clem

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