On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:25:50 -0400 Greg Freemyer wrote:

You left out Unixware. It is a critical part of the picture.

I have forgotten the details, but SCO bought Unixware from somewhere.

Unixware was the official UNIX Sys 5 rel 4 release and when SCO bought it, they bought all sorts of IP. I believe they bought it from Novell. Without doing my researchm I recall that Novell bought Unix System Labs from AT&T. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

On Thu, 01 May 2003 01:44:55 +0200 Philipp Thomas wrote:

Jerry Feldman [Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:51:31 -0400]:

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I believe they bought it from Novell.

Yes. Funny thing is, that the Novell CEO at that time was Ray Noorda, who, incidentally, is also one of the largest investors of Caldera, now SCO Group.

Just to confuse everyone somemore.....here is that chart from Sco. ha ha http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

On Thu, 1 May 2003 07:37:40 -0400 zentara wrote:

Just to confuse everyone somemore.....here is that chart from Sco. ha ha

http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html Interesting that the green bard is "SCO Linux Predigree". SCO had nothing to do with the development of Minix or Linux. Caldera was certainly available back in the mid-1990s but they were predated by Slackware and Ygdrasil if I recall. The chart kind of makes it appear that SCO developed Linux.

-- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9