11 Mar
2003
11 Mar
'03
8:43 a.m.
Can someone clarify for me how Caldera fits in the picture? I thought
SCO sold Unix to Caldera? It was Caldera that did the BSD-ing of ancient
Unix.
FWIW I too paid $100 for an ancient Unix license, and I've got the System III
stuff that licensees had access to.
Thanks,
Arnold
11 Mar
11 Mar
10:45 p.m.
On Tuesday, 11 March 2003 at 10:43:20 +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
Can someone clarify for me how Caldera fits in the
picture? I thought
SCO sold Unix to Caldera? It was Caldera that did the BSD-ing of ancient
Unix.
Caldera changed its name (back) to SCO about last August. It's the
same company. Take a look at http://www.caldera.com.
FWIW I too paid $100 for an ancient Unix license, and
I've got the
System III stuff that licensees had access to.
Hmmm. That's a point. Does the Ancient UNIX license cover more than
last year's release?
Greg
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11:27 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:15:00AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
The US$100 SCO Ancient UNIX license had this clause:
The SOURCE CODE PRODUCTS to which SCO grants rights under this
Agreement are restricted to the following UNIX Operating Systems,
including SUCCESSOR OPERATING SYSTEMs, that operate on the 16-Bit
PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System
with specific exclusion of UNIX System V and successor operating
systems:
16-Bit UNIX Editions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
32-bit 32V
[ http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/sco_license.txt ]
This implies that System III on the PDP11 is covered by this license,
as SCO has the legal rights to System III and it is a SUCCESSOR
OPERATING SYSTEM.
The BSD-style Caldera license has this clause:
The source code for which Caldera International, Inc. grants rights are
limited to the following UNIX Operating Systems that operate on the
16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System,
with specific exclusion of UNIX System III and UNIX System V and
successor operating systems:
32-bit 32V UNIX
16 bit UNIX Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
[ http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf ]
So the new license specifically prohibits System III, whereas the Ancient UNIX
license implicitly permitted System III.
Warren
FWIW I too
paid $100 for an ancient Unix license, and I've got the
System III stuff that licensees had access to.
Hmmm. That's a point. Does the Ancient UNIX license cover more than
last year's release?
Greg
11:48 p.m.
On Wednesday, 12 March 2003 at 9:27:13 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:15:00AM +1030, Greg
'groggy' Lehey wrote:
The US$100 SCO Ancient UNIX license had this clause:
...
So the new license specifically prohibits System III, whereas the
Ancient UNIX license implicitly permitted System III.
Heh. So we have something to show for our $100 after all :-)
Greg
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FWIW I
too paid $100 for an ancient Unix license, and I've got the
System III stuff that licensees had access to.
Hmmm. That's a point. Does the Ancient UNIX license cover more than
last year's release?
Greg 
12 Mar
12 Mar
6:43 a.m.
"Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog(a)lemis.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 11 March 2003 at 10:43:20 +0200, Aharon
Robbins wrote:
This message explains the history of SCO in more detail:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=56649&cid=5483348
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Can someone clarify for me how Caldera fits in
the picture? I
thought SCO sold Unix to Caldera? It was Caldera that did the
BSD-ing of ancient Unix.
Caldera changed its name (back) to SCO about last August.
It's the
same company. Take a look at http://www.caldera.com.
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