SCO

Jeff Smith jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Sat Jul 31 16:17:00 EDT 2004


Fred - 
SCO didn't buy out Caldera, SCO sold the name, Unixware and
Unix system V business (not necessarily the copyrights, etc
- that's a subject of several lawsuits) to Caldera, and SCO
changed their name to Tarantella.  About the same time,
Ransom Love left Caldera, current admin came in, and
eventually started what you see.  Note that the current
group is "The SCO Group" and NOT "Santa Cruz Operations" -
names changed to confuse everyone.

a good site to check out is Groklaw
(http://www.groklaw.net) -  PJ and company follow all the
legal aspects of the cases, post the actual documents,
disect Copyright, Trademark, Trade Secret, Patent, and
Contract laws (note they are NOT the same), and otherwise
do fine open-source legal research on these issues.

jeff




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