Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:49:04 -0700 From: Travis Cole <tcole@nihilist.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pet Theory for World Domination Message-ID: <20000714074904.A30544@nihilist.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000713235500.29728D-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:56:57PM -0500 References: <200007140329.XAA28932@rac10.wam.umd.edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000713235500.29728D-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:56:57PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Howard wrote: > > :In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007132020180.3210-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>, 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
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