3 Feb
2007
3 Feb
'07
1:19 a.m.
Warren says:
I would
guess that the intellectual property rights of UNIX ended up with
Alcatel-Lucent, but, that whole related series of trades, spin-offs and
mergers has left me a bit confused. In any case, WHOEVER now owns the
rights to UNIX would probably be interested in the fact that some
version of their code is being sold without license.
Depends on who you listen to- SCO-Caldera think they got it from
Novell, Novell thinks that they still have it from when they bought out
AT&T's share of USL and SCO-Caldera only has rights to use...
At any rate the UNIX trademarks went to The Open Group, nee UNIX
International.
3 Feb
3 Feb
12:29 p.m.
AT&T gave up Unix to Novel via USL back around 1992 -- 15 years ago.
Lucent has a couple of software pieces... I think the NMAKE program went to
them along with the Sublime version control stuff. I know they used to sell
that stuff along with (IIRC -- memory hazy here) the DWB and Programmers
Workbench stuff.
Bill
On 2/3/07, Scott Quinn <compoobah at valleyimplants.com> wrote:
Warren says:
I would
guess that the intellectual property rights of UNIX ended up with
Alcatel-Lucent, but, that whole related series of trades, spin-offs and
mergers has left me a bit confused. In any case, WHOEVER now owns the
rights to UNIX would probably be interested in the fact that some
version of their code is being sold without license.
Depends on who you listen to- SCO-Caldera think they got it from
Novell, Novell thinks that they still have it from when they bought out
AT&T's share of USL and SCO-Caldera only has rights to use...
At any rate the UNIX trademarks went to The Open Group, nee UNIX
International.
12:44 p.m.
In article <ee5521f80702030929n185d5617qe30c740df75208fc at mail.gmail.com>,
"Bill Pechter" <pechter at gmail.com> writes:
AT&T gave up Unix to Novel via USL back around
1992 -- 15 years ago.
Ah yes, the ill-fated Univel.
It seems its the Kiss of Death if Novell buys your company.
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4 Feb
4 Feb
10:36 a.m.
On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Richard wrote:
Well these days, someone buying your company is the kiss-of-death
symptom, not the problem. The management mentality that often
results (at least now) in company acquisitions is one of the things
that's killing companies these days.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
AT&T gave
up Unix to Novel via USL back around 1992 -- 15 years ago.
Ah yes, the ill-fated Univel.
It seems its the Kiss of Death if Novell buys your company.
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