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From: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, Josh Good <pepe@naleco.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Micnet Was: Re: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:08:55 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNPpeaZVg34eRToOWr=uJYvoU_tfCTh=6YF=5MqyfhYG4xADw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210320151632.GM2912@mcvoy.com>

It reads as if this company was a support company for SCO sites from
way back, and quietly carried on supporting SCO Unix sites when
Caldera blew a fuse and became The SCO Group and started some
unfathomably stupid lawsuits.

Wesley Parish

On 3/21/21, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Josh Good wrote:
>> https://www.scosales.com/ta/kb/103649.htmlOB
>
> I thought SCO had long since died.  Did they open source it and is this
> company providing support?
>
> As fun as ancient Unix is, SCO was pretty sparse and not in a good way.
>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-21  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-18  9:44 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2021-03-18 11:27 ` Mike Knell via TUHS
2021-03-18 12:04   ` Jim Capp
2021-03-20 11:50   ` Josh Good
2021-03-20 15:16     ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21  0:08       ` Wesley Parish [this message]
2021-03-21  0:18         ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21  1:12           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21  1:31             ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-21  1:42               ` Kevin Bowling
2021-03-21  2:38                 ` [TUHS] SCO marketing FreeBSD (was: Micnet, Was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21  2:43                   ` Kevin Bowling
2021-03-21  3:02                     ` Warner Losh
2021-03-21  3:04                       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-21  3:09                         ` Warner Losh
2021-03-21  6:53                         ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-21 11:01                   ` Harald Arnesen

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