Hi

Some years back when I was younger, I got interested in linux as an operating system. I had an old blank, DOS, computer (486) and decided to run one called Caldera 2.3?. Friend of mine put it on for me and later he moved. I played with it for awhile, but couldn't get it to work like I wanted and there were no instruction books with the software. So, I deleted it and put DOS 6.22 on it and I could work it.

Later, I heard something about a company, SCO, filing suit against Linux, so I threw away the CD, not wanting to get in trouble. I got involved in other things and forgot about Caldera.

As I understand it, SCO went bankrupt, due to this smartass company raider. What ever became of Caldera? Was it sold off? Can you still buy the CD's of it? It did have some neat graphics of the planets and star formations.

I would appreciate knowing.

Thanks in advance,
Cheers,

William Fortson...On my grandpa's computer

I doubt anyone would arrest you for using a 20 year old defunct product.

Here is some info.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera_OpenLinux

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sco

I suspect there are some places on the web that has almost anything. I doubt anyone has the stock left for a new sale.

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You wouldn't find anything on Caldera (discontinued 2003!) that you can't get in a modern distro. Also, you'd have no security support and it would lack drivers for modern hardware. There are several astronomical programs available, like stellarium, celestia, sky chart, open universe, aciqra, and no doubt many more, which would run on a distro of you choice.

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Also there would not be any repositories on it and If you get problems with caldera it would be almost imposable to find support, since nobody uses it anymore, Also I Am sure that nobody sells it, but able you can find it form an archived mirror.

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SCO filed for bankruptcy four years ago.
They claimed to have got copyrights on some Unix software from Novell. Quote below from a US court decision:

More info at wikipedia for anyone interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group

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This case was definitively covered on http://www.groklaw.net, which is also described in this WikiPedia article.

The web-site marked a career change for Pamela Jones ("PJ"), the paralegal who started the site. She moved from being "just a paralegal" to a widely respected Internet reporter. Like the now-defunct http://www.fu*kedcompany.com, the site became (IMHO...) the place where people (from Wall Street to everybody-else) who wanted to quickly know what was going on, could go and do just that. It continues to cover intellectual-property cases.

So far as we know, the SCO case finally came down to this. Nothing left but a patch of oily water and a broken-down life vest that reads, Titanic. And GrokLaw was there from the beginning to the end.

Although Novell will never reclaim its former position with regards to an alternative networking system, it (and IBM...) did have the presence of mind to steadfastly defeat a claim that sought to turn Linux itself into a de-facto proprietary system owned by (IMHO) a group of lawyer-bunnies who had contributed absolutely nothing to it.

That the Courts, didn't allow the companies SUED by this SCHMUCK(Yittish) to be allowed to keep their software of "Caldera" and continue to work on it and put it out.

Seems to me when you are sued, and the other party looses, you should e able to keep doing business and be able to get compensated for lost revenue due to the legitation. But then a good swift, hard, kick in his crotch would work for me too,
LOL!

Well, I might have to investigate building my OWN version of an O/S and DARE someone to say it was their's FIRST. I wonder if this is possible? It would be nice to have one that was impenatribubital by some hacker or evil-doer.

Much thanks for all of y' all's input, shame it all had to be bad news.

GOD BLESS, FOREVER,
Warmest Regards,

"Buck"/KA5LQJ

If I thought I had rights to some property I guess I'd sue also. Why not? What do you have to loose? Trust me on this. Some of you will find out the hard way how similar property ownership is to any other claim. You may have to pay to defend ownership and may have to sue others who try to encroach. I know this all too well.

A very long time ago I read about the inventor of the rim fire. He died penniless defending his patent even though it made others rich. It is in the way contracts are written sometimes.