[TUHS] Now that Novell officially owns Unix again...

[TUHS] Now that Novell officially owns Unix again...

[Michael Kerpan]

Is anything likely to happen to the status of various historical
Unices? Is Novell likely to keep the Ancient Unix license intact or
are they likely to lock things back up? Is there any chance that
SysIII and early SysV might finally get opened up? Does anybody have
any ideas here?

Mike
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[TUHS] Now that Novell officially owns Unix again...

[Michael Kerpan]

Is anything likely to happen to the status of various historical
Unices? Is Novell likely to keep the Ancient Unix license intact or
are they likely to lock things back up? Is there any chance that
SysIII and early SysV might finally get opened up? Does anybody have
any ideas here?

Mike
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[TUHS] Now that Novell officially owns Unix again...

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <u2x8dd2d95c1004011856q7bdde73bl6b44c15a49b54726 at mail.gmail.com>
            Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com> writes:
: Is anything likely to happen to the status of various historical
: Unices? Is Novell likely to keep the Ancient Unix license intact or
: are they likely to lock things back up? Is there any chance that
: SysIII and early SysV might finally get opened up? Does anybody have
: any ideas here?

It is unlikely anything will happen before the Novel/SCO case is
completely over.  All that has happened is that a key verdict on one
aspect of the case has been rendered.  In all likelihood, Novel will
likely end up on top, but until the litigation is actually over, they
are unlikely to do anything.

Warner
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[Michael Kerpan]

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:55 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> It is unlikely anything will happen before the Novel/SCO case is
> completely over.  All that has happened is that a key verdict on one
> aspect of the case has been rendered.  In all likelihood, Novel will
> likely end up on top, but until the litigation is actually over, they
> are unlikely to do anything.
>
> Warner
>

I realize that until things go through appeals and all, none of this
is final. I was just wondering whether we should be worried,
optimistic or indifferent about what will happen to the status of
historical Unix once the dust settles.

Mike