From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Novell, not SCO, found to own "Unix"
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:22:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzx+0A9oQrhwfKiwH4f-Fea9e0URe=wihJAvBOxiuitWiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1803300721250.3361@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 29/03/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> Time for another hand-grenade in the duck pond :-) Or as we call it
> down-under, "stirring the possum".
>
> 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.
>
> As an aside, this was the first and only time that I was on IBM's side,
> and I still wonder whether M$ was bankrolling SCO in an effort to wipe
> Linux off the map; what sort of an idiot would take on IBM?
Methinks a mention of the wonderful record at Groklaw
(http://www.groklaw.net) is in order.
N.
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-30 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-29 20:51 Dave Horsfall
2018-03-29 21:19 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-30 1:01 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30 23:22 ` Nemo [this message]
2018-03-31 0:34 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-03-31 1:53 ` Wesley Parish
2018-03-31 14:56 ` Michael Parson
2018-04-01 0:13 ` Dave Horsfall
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