[TUHS] Help Contacting Unix Legal People

[Jason Stevens]

I tried sending a letter a while back asking how much is a commercial SYSV
license anyways, never got a reply. I called their legal and they didn't
know what a Unix was.


I guess shockingly all the public facing micro focus is all on cobol

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Toomey
To: tuhs at tuhs.org
Sent: 6/10/21 8:32 AM
Subject: [TUHS] Help Contacting Unix Legal People

All, we need help contacting some people so that Dan Doernberg can make
progress on a new Unix book that he's working on. I've attached his
request to the TUHS list below. If you can help out in any way, please
contact Dan directly.

Cheers, Warren

   From: Peer-to-Peer Communications LLC <dan at peerllc.com>

   Hello all, I’m the publisher of Lions' Commentary on UNIX (still
   going strong after 25 years!) and I have an “Ancient UNIX” book
project
   in mind that I need some community help with.

   To avoid running into any “who has copyright rights to UNIX” legal
   problems, we’re trying to reach out in advance to any
   companies/organizations that may have such rights (Micro Focus,
Xinuos,
   Nokia, are there others?) in advance. To that end, I’m trying to find
   staffers there who are:
      1. sympathetic to sharing information about “ancient UNIX” with
the
   operating system/UNIX communities
      2. somewhat familiar with the past legal issues and controversies
   over UNIX ownership (perhaps someone in the legal department)

   If you know any such person(s) at Micro Focus, Xinuos, Nokia, and/or
   other relevant organizations that has either quality (or ideally a
   unicorn with both!), please pass on their name and email address to
me
   (even better, add any context about why they might be helpful to me,
if
   it’s OK to say that you referred me to them, etc.].

   Thanks much, all referrals greatly appreciated!
   Dan Doernberg
   dan at peerllc.com