OT: SCO Group Files Chapter 11

[Craig White]

$200 mil is chump change where Microsoft is concerned and hardly a
problem.

The problem that FOSS represents is erosion of their server sales and
the certainty of a similar erosion in their desktop sales. Large
corporations have a tremendous incentive to use FOSS systems to avoid
the large licensing fees associated with Microsoft products.

Craig

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 20:17 -0700, David Munson wrote:
> 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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