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)

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 17:59, Rick Tomaschuk may have wrote: that IBM bought have not had their agreements released.

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.

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:

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. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml