[SunRescue] Caldera owns Unix? WTF?

[Mike Nicewonger]

Essentially an outfit called "The Open Group" owns the trademark "UNIX". How
that came to be is a long convoluted tale that requires a Ross Perot chalk
board demonstration. So if Caldera bought the Open Group, they would now own
the trademark to UNIX.

Of course the name "The Open Group" has absolutely nothing to do with Open
Source.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Hansen" <Ken.Hansen at ICTI-USA.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: [SunRescue] Caldera owns Unix? WTF?


> 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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