[SunRescue] Caldera owns Unix? WTF?

[Scotty Logan]

Pedantically, Unix isn't trademarked, but UNIX is.  From several of
Sun's web pages:

UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries,
exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd.

See http://www.opengroup.org/registration/Brandfees.htm for their
licensing stuff, and the conditions you have to meet to be "UNIX(R)".

I think Caldera gets what used to be AT&T SVR5.4 for Intel, but not the
trademark.

  Scotty

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Scotty Logan <swl at stanford.edu>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Kevin Loch
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:17
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Caldera owns Unix? WTF?
>
>
> Isn't "Unix" such a common generic term that it is unenforcable
> as a trademark?  If there ever was another "Kleenex", "Unix" has to
> be it.
>
> KL
>
> Ken Hansen wrote:
> >
> > Bob,
> > I am not aware of what you are talking about, but I assume
> that Caldera bought the part of SCO that used to be the part
> of Novell, that used to be the part of AT&T that was
> developing Unix. Is this what happened? If so, no biggie, IMHO.
> >
> > They bought the product called Unix, and they can license
> it out to other vendors.
> >
> > Sun doesn't need to pay, since they made a one-time
> perpetual license payment in the millions of dollars, IIRC
> (to SCO IIRC).
> >
> > Owning Unix doesn't really allow them to do anything other
> than charge license fees, oh and control the definition of
> what is (and is not) Unix. I think their interest lies solely
> in th eformer, not the latter (they want the revenue, not the
> control).
> >
> > Just my $.02,
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > Original post:
> >
> >         For the sake of discussion, anyone care to comment on
> >         the recent Caldera takeover of UNIX?  Caldera is a big
> >         Linux house, too. I sense a marriage of the two, which
> >         could affect a lot of UNIX down the road, if I am
> >         reading things correctly.
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