[Cialug] SCO's not dead yet

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Mon Oct 8 15:23:44 CDT 2007


On 10/8/07, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> 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,

I did have the facts wrong... I don't think SCO Group (which I've been
confusing all this time for "SCO" aka Santa Cruz Operations) doesn't
really own Unix.

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