21 Mar
2021
21 Mar
'21
7:12 a.m.
On Saturday, 20 March 2021 at 17:18:43 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
Yeah, but wouldn't that mean that SCO Unix had to
be open sourced?
Or did they buy the rights?
They didn't "open source" SCO, but in January 2002 they released
"ancient Unix" under a "BSD-style" license. See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/
But I'm sure everybody knows that.
While I mostly can't believe anyone would want
SCO Unix, I do know that
they ran a lot of cash registers, or maybe they were the server, I dunno,
somehow point of sale and SCO was a thing a long time ago. So maybe it
is a legacy thing?
I haven't been following SCO recently, but at some point they had
taken UnixWare from Novell. I'm sure that, too, is common knowledge.
Greg
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