[conspire] SCO-Microsoft connection

[Bill Ward]

There's SCO and then there's SCO.  The SCO you're thinking of was
Santa Cruz Operation, which did indeed acquire the rights to Microsoft
Xenix and make it their own, before their later acquisition of the
official Unix rights.  The SCO of the lawsuit is really Caldera, which
had acquired the Unix properties and the company name from Santa Cruz
Operation.  The company that had been Santa Cruz Operation continued
for a while as Tarantella Corp. until it was acquired by Sun.

On 10/12/06, jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
>
>     i recall from kindler, gentler times that SCO, whoever
> they may have been at the time, licensed Xenix from
> Microsoft, and Xenix was to some degree AT&T Unix--
> MSFT had been one of the early licensors of AT&T
> source code and either used AT&T unix code or
> copped some licks, all per license terms.
>     anyone know the truth?
>
>
> On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Adrien Lamothe wrote:
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> > Hey, check this out. Can you say "smoking gun?"
> >
> > http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7929912840.html
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