Re: DU Libraries and such

[Maurice Hilarius <maurice harddata com>]

With regards to your message at 11:40 AM 08-14-98 -0400, Ken Hansen. Where
you stated:
>Minor nit to pick: SCO bought Unix (the product) and the group that did
>the development of Unix from AT&T - so they not only got all the
>existing
>Unix versions out there, they have a lock on all future versions that
>are *true* Unix...
>
>They OWN Unix.
>
>Sorry, just wanted to clarify a bit,

More clarifying:

They OWN AT&T based UNIX.
Sun OWNS it's own version of BSD UNIX, and there are others.
So SCO does NOT own all UNIX.

Now that Sun has changed from SUNOS to Solaris, they now pay some
allegiance to SCO as well, but from what I understand is that when they
made this choice, they obtained a "one-time" fee charge on the rights, and
will pay no further royalties to the AT&T licensing owner.


Cheers,

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