On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Alan DuBoff wrote: > Me too Tim, and it seems Sun has some rights to some of the UNIX copyrights, > from the SCO deal around 2003/2004.
Just to clarify, the previous deal that Zanders did with AT&T gave Sun many of the rights, I believe, but (once again) IANAL. The SCO deal is more closely related to Novell, who I think holds the UNIX name possibly???? But somehow I seem to think SCO is somehow in bed with Novell, but I am not sure what happened to SCO, I thik they shrivelled up and died...:-/ Either way, Sun does own rights to the UNIX name, and has continued to certify it against the POSIX extentions, so it is UNIX for the most part, and again why OpenUNIX makes sense. It also implies that it is an open and free version in much the same way, <cough> OpenSolaris does.:-/ -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
