I was just (before logging in
) this article:
SCO Vs IBM & Linus Torvalds
Has anyone red this?
If memory serves me right, UNIX was made in AT&T Bell Laboratories by Ken Thompson, Denis Ritchie (Creator of the C languange!) in 1969. Sun Microsystems (based on BSD) and even Microsoft used to sell the system (actually I've never seen the version of Microsoft, Xenix), Berkley (BSD, in 1975) was another. By mid 80's AT&T Bell Labs took UNIX to another organization, the UNIX System Laboratories who kept developing the system. By 1991 this organization produced what we know today as System V version 4. In response IBM and HP stablished the OSF (Open Software Foundation) to dvelop their own UNIX standard. Latter in 1993 UNIX System Laboratories sold UNIX to Novell forming the UNIX System Group by Novell, who produced what we know now as UnixWare. I don't know how or when did Novell sold UNIX to SCO (Santa Cruz Operation). But to me is clear that the claims by SCO to IBM and latter to Linus have no fundaments at all. Being that the code IBM has was sent to them by AT&T Bell Labs, not SCO.
I may be wrong, and certainly I do not know much of the recent UNIX history (appart of Linux) so if anyone has any insight please correct me (us).
What do you think about this?
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