At the briefing SCO claimed copyright and trademark ownership of the UNIX name. As for ties to Microsoft going back many years SCO referred to these claims as laughable and I would be skeptical of SCO's involvement and any sort of stock sell off given the fallout from Enron, Tyco, Martha etc. Unix coming from mixed origins (Berkeley)is based on confidential agreements and otherwise with AT&T to rewrite code. While I may not be 100% right on with every tiny tid-bit since I have better things to do than filter through every line of every article ever written on the subject I'm confident in the accuracy of the bulk of what I'm saying since I've had the opportunity to get answers directly from SCO's CEO and other CEO's and officers who seem to know what they are talking about. I'm just a low level partner like many others I've met at TLUG meetings. If you are as informed as you think you are we could have used you in Las Vegas this week. Why were'nt you there? The trip cost peanuts compared to the long term value it offered. What on earth is wrong with a free market? Our whole economy is based on a free market. The world is moving toward globalization. The GPL is a welcome addition to our world but we still need to maintain other options. IMHO On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:49:51 -0400, Lloyd D Budd <lloyd-fEEwcc3XMu8jODpR/OX0VQ at public.gmane.org> wrote :

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 17:59, Rick Tomaschuk may have wrote:

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My understanding is that SCO owns copyrights and trademarks for UNIX SYSTEM V. Err...but it is debatable whether they own the trademark to UNIX. IBM had a special contractually arrangement with AT&T. The other UNIX(s) that IBM bought have not had their agreements released.

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Most other (nearly all) UNIXes are based upon licences from SYSTEM V (AT&T) so SCO is at the root of the UNIX tree. Most? Many UNIX seem to be from mixed origin.

It is not clear to me how relevant other item is, but there is a *huge* amount of interesting information on the net related to this.

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As for reporters and their articles I've read and will continue to read all I can find. Rick, prior to the briefing where you well versed on the information available?

I find it difficult to believe that you have read everything that you can find. Otherwise, I do not know how you could suggest:

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MY UNDERSTANDING is that it is not SCO's intention to undermine the Linux effort but rather to survive as a "for profit" company in a free market.

profit> some have suggested that there has been stock sell off of interesting quantity

free market> cringe

If you are genuinely interested, it appears there is a lot of material available that you might not have read thoroughly. slashdot is a good place to start as they provide links to pretty much all of the articles I was aware of before I got bored of the topic after many, many articles over many, many days, Lloyd

P.S. This is unlikely be resolved any year soon.

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