Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:40:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD wars (was: Pet Theory for World Domination) Message-ID: <20000716114046.E57098@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000715145330.04d309c0@localhost> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000713235500.29728D-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007151335530.9286-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.n et> <4.3.2.7.2.20000715145330.04d309c0@localhost>
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On Saturday, 15 July 2000 at 14:57:32 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 02:37 PM 7/15/2000, The Clark Family wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, David Scheidt wrote: >>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Howard wrote: >>> >>>> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007132020180.3210-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>, The Clark Family writes: >>>>> >>>>> SCO bought UNIXWare from Novell didn't they? >>>> >>>> Yes. Also, wasn't this purchase made *during* the court proceedings? >>> >>> I think that was AT&T selling UNIX to Novell. My history is sort of fuzzy, >>> though. >> >> That bit-o-code seems to have a curse on it. Has anyone who's owned it >> done well? >> >> (Not that I remember, but then my memory isn't very long or detailed.) > > It seems to me that it's the trademark, more than the code, that > has been the curse. Remember how the AT&T lawsuit started? It was > filed after a new startup called BSD, Inc. began to advertise its > products together with the phone number 1-800-ITS-UNIX. That's how it started, but it's not the subject of the lawsuit. The "ITS-UNIX" thing was settled before the lawsuit began. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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