On Friday 15 August 2003 3:13 pm, Rob Becker wrote:

> The way I understand it, SCO owns some of the rights to one of the
> earlier trunks of the UNIX source tree.  

According to Novell, what they own is the right to use and distribute, not the 
actual rights to the code, which Novell retains.

A side note:  I believe it was the original Santa Cruise Operation that did 
the commercial strain of System V, in parallel with UC Berkely's more open 
strain.  Eventually, some of the people from UCB went on to create and 
release Berkeley Source Distribution or BSD, but nothing remains of the 
original SCO except the name, which has been passed around quite a bit in 
recent years.  The same group that bought Caldera from Novell bought the 
rights to the SCO name from someone else, I forget who.