OT: SCO Group Files Chapter 11

[David Munson]

Yeah, when Novell acquired DR DOS, they inherited that lawsuit.
Interesting stuff. No wonder MS hates FOSS, it's been giving them
problems for years!

On 9/14/07, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I seem to recall the founder of Caldera was a higher up or co-founder of
> Novell.  He took Dr DOS with him.
>
> He was successful in suing M$ for killing DOS with their claims of an
> integrated DOS/Win95 which he proved false by pealing Win95 off DOS and
> placing win95 onto DR DOS.  The old DOS/Win31config.
>
> I seem to recall he got $200MILL.  Of course M$ went on to make something
> like 40Bill.
>
> Maybe that is how this crazy stuff started!
>
>
>
> David Munson <david.munson at gmail.com> wrote:
> The following should not be used in a court of law, but it is fact as
> far as I am able to determine.
>
> If by SCO you mean The SCO Group (Darl & Co), then yes. Here's why:
>
> Santa Cruz Operations (Old SCO) sold pretty much everything to Caldera
> in 2001, and Old SCO became Tarantella, Inc, since that was all they
> did now. Bye-bye Old SCO.
>
> Caldera changed their name to The SCO Group as a result of this
> purchase. Anything owned by Caldera therefore is now property of The
> SCO Group (New SCO, same company, new name).
>
> There were multiple developers of S5 platforms/products, Old SCO was
> one of them. Old SCO probably developed it, so in all likelyhood it
> went to Caldera, and thus New SCO.
>
> On 9/14/07, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Does anyone know if SCO would own software copyrighted by Caldera from
> > 2001-2002?
> >
> > Copyright(C) Caldera International Inc. 2001-2002. All rights reserved.
> >
> > I am working on PCC which was shipped with System V Release 2 (I think) in
> > early 1980's and was started in 1970's. It now has those 2001-2002 Caldera
> > copyrights.
> >
> > See the grant of the fee free license at
> >
> http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/Caldera-license.txt
> >
> > Did Caldera really own that software? Does SCO own it now?
> >
> > I am trying to figure out the timeline and ownership of all this since I
> > am also looking at a nroff based on that code.
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