[geeks] SCO sues IBM

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:21:39AM -0800, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > > SCO has launched a lawsuit against IBM over Unix IP and has
> > > threatened to revoke IBM's license to ship AIX if their
> > > demands are not met.
> > 
> > Well, you know, when you can't produce a software product worth the
> > CD it's printed on, you have to resort to other methods of revenue. 
> I
> > think SCO's just bitter that no one uses their horribly outdated and
> > overpriced OS.
> 
> Sanity check: SCO Owns "Unix", bought from Novell, who bought it from
> AT&T.

I thought that somewhere in there, the official unix trademark got
transfered to OS/F.

In my opinion, the most pure unix is NetBSD.  I mean, it descends
directly from the old BSD unix distribution, where as is there anything
that decends directly from System V?