[TUHS] Novell and Ancient Unix

[Jason Stevens]

I honestly wonder if the people doing the lawsuits, and the people
selling stuff are even in the same continent...Then again they
probably have one of those fantastic 1970's models where you buy
through a reseller who masquerades as the parent company, and only
sells what is on a price list or at most they can pursue a part
number...  It is always strange these companies that fight over old
stuff like crazy, but refuse to support, or sell it...

But I'll sit tight, as I know the pain of supporting MS-DOS based
stuff .... in 2011.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Michael Kerpan
<madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I tried last year and they were doing their best to sell me linux..  I
>> even gave them links showing that they owned SYSV, I was asking about
>> source/binary licenses, or even the ability to resell SYSV.. lol that
>> got me nowhere.
>
> For something they fought so hard in court to own, they sure are
> clueless about what they have. Still, perhaps asking about reselling
> SVR4 or whatever they nominally may still have in some catalog isn't
> going to get you in touch with the people who would need to be
> persuaded to release some earlier stuff under an open license.
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