Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>On Friday 15 August 2003 3:13 pm, Rob Becker wrote:
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>>The way I understand it, SCO owns some of the rights to one of the
>>earlier trunks of the UNIX source tree.
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>According to Novell, what they own is the right to use and distribute, not the
>actual rights to the code, which Novell retains.
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>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.
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I just want to thank everyone for their responses.

This has certainly been an enlightening thread.

Too bad money won again.

Take care, all.

Chris