5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
2:05 p.m.
On 5 Sep 2007 at 13:34, Fred Cisin wrote:
IIRC, Xenix WAS Unix. There were two parts of a Unix
license, code and
name. Xenix was fully licensed on code, but did not license the "Unix"
name trademark.
Leastwise, that's how it was written up in infoworld, etc. at the time.
There were, I recall, some significant differences. Like BSD, I
think it'd be safest to term it "Unix derivative". AT&T got really
strange in the early 80's about their licensing terms. At some
point, I think, they were pushing a per-seat fee. No more of "Pay us
$50K and we'll send you a tape that you can play with however you'd
like".
I have MS-DOS 2.0 release notes from Microsoft that says that they
intended to turn MS-DOS into a single-user Xenix-work-alike.
Cheers,
Chuck