From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 14 7:49:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from kant.nihilist.org (kant.nihilist.org [64.6.194.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D869037B64F for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:49:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcole@nietzsche.nihilist.org) Received: from nietzsche.nihilist.org (nietzsche.nihilist.org [192.168.1.5]) by kant.nihilist.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6EEmax26808; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tcole@localhost) by nietzsche.nihilist.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA32746; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:49:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tcole) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:49:04 -0700 From: Travis Cole To: David Scheidt Cc: James Howard , The Clark Family , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pet Theory for World Domination Message-ID: <20000714074904.A30544@nihilist.org> References: <200007140329.XAA28932@rac10.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:56:57PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:56:57PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Howard wrote: > > :In message , The > :Clark Family writes: > :> > :> SCO bought UNIXWare from Novell didn't they? > : > :Yes. Also, wasn't this purchase made *during* the court proceedings? > > I think that was AT&T selling UNIX to Novell. My history is sort of fuzzy, > though. Yeah, thats right. AT&T were they guys going after BSD, and when they sold UNIX to Novell that pretty much put a stop to it. But by that time BSD was mostly UNIX code free anyway. McKusick explains it pretty well in his chapter in Open Sources. Check out: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html Look for "The Lawsuit" -- --Travis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message