[Cialug] SCO's not dead yet

[David Champion]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On 10/8/07, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>> Why would you buy them? It would be cheaper for McDonalds to switch to
>> Windows then buy SCO. Why continue the fight? They've obviously been
>> beaten -there's no "revenue" to be gained.
>>
> 
> Maybe I've got the facts wrong, but when Novel begot Caldera/SCO
> didn't they also get the name "Unix" too? Isn't that what this hassle
> is about fundamentally?
> 
> Seems like owning the name Unix would have some value to it,
> 

The lawsuit was about SCO claiming that Linux contained source code that
belonged to SCO / Unix.

-dc