The SCO Group Announces Final Termination of IBM Contract to Use or License Dynix Software

SCO ^ | 08/13/03 | The SCO Group

[Golden Eagle]

Don't be surprised. I post/read everything I find about this. Also, it's a SCO press release, so it's *supposed* to be damaging to my side. ;-)

That's respectable, indeed, and likely why I was surprised. ;-)

Concerning your knowledge related to the case, are there any copies of the ATT/Sequent contracts floating out there? How about this supposed 'three-way' contract with Novell?

[Salo]

I have not seen the contracts, but I am sure they will be posted soon somewhere. There's a law site that has been following this case very closely that has been putting up plenty of documentation. Nick Danger will most likely have it up as soon as it is available.

[Salo]

Not sure if these two are it, but:

Exhibit F

Exhibit G

[isthisnickcool]

Has SCO claimed to own all the rights to CP/M yet?

[Revolting cat!]

Are there any engineers left in Santa Cruz - they're Santa Cruz Operation, so they've gotta be in Santa Cruz, California, no? - or is it all Noo Yuck shysters now? (Rhetorical question, please don't answer!) Or have they moved to Santa Cruz, Mississippi, to take advantage of the, uhm, favourable climate there which serves the lawyers' well being so well?

(Sorry, the cat's on the kick of tracking the daily white lies that we've come to accept so readily - 41 million of hungry chilrun, 10% of us all are homoes, 10 million homeless, xx billions lost by the RIAA members, and so on.)

[Golden Eagle]

Thanks, those are the only copies I've seen and they're very difficult to read. The three way is Exhibit D, it appears.

[Nick Danger]

Has SCO claimed to own all the rights to CP/M yet?

You laugh, but this company actually did buy all the IP from Digital Research when it sank, so they presumably own CP/M.

They tried to make money selling DR-DOS, but finally struck gold when they gave up using it as software and instead used it as lawsuit fuel. Sorta like what they're doing now with UNIX. Reports vary as to exact amount, but they stung Microsoft for over a hundred million with that lawsuit. That's prolly where they got the idea for this lawsuit. Why sell and maintain code when you can just sue people with it and make a lot more money?

Whaaaaat a country. And Shakespeare was right about the lawyers.

[amigatec]

IIRC there were 1500 boxes of evidence for that case. Also the DAY that they bought DR-DOS was the day the suit was filed. And what is interesting is the a few days after the case was settled Bill Gates stepped down as CEO.

Maybe that had something to do with it.

[amigatec]

Let me aslo add that at least Novell did something with DR-DOS, the boot partition on Novell 5 is DR-DOS. And the rest reminds you of UNIX.

[Nick Danger]

Are there any engineers left in Santa Cruz - they're Santa Cruz Operation...

No, this company is not what we once knew as the Santa Cruz Operation. That company is still in business, and still in Santa Cruz, but they changed their name to Tarantella.

They sold their UNIXware business and apparently the "SCO" name, to Caldera in 2001. Caldera is a Utah company founded by Novell founder Ray Noorda after he was, erm, resigned from the board of Novell. Caldera just recently finished changing their official name to "The SCO Group, Inc."

I don't know if Noorda approved of this change. Ray Noorda was a visionary; he saw 'networking' in time to make Novell into a big company, and he had the foresight to name his new company "Caldera," which is the crater that remains following a volcanic explosion.

[Coral Snake]

I think they placed CP/M in the streight Public Domain due to obsolecence. However Canopy Group is still trying to make money out of DR-DOS as an "embedded system" through a new sunsidiary called Device Logics. Opening these obsolete systems that no longer have a real effect on the American economy or security is one thing that I can continue to agree with you Linux peopole about. However I believe that they should be opened under BSD or MIT licensing or simply placed in the Public Domain so that commercial as well as open source projects can take advantage of projects to update them, NOT the General Commie Virus(GPL) which essentially locks them up to "community" use only.

[ShadowAce]

NOT the General Commie Virus(GPL) which essentially locks them up to "community" use only.

No, it doesn't.