Jasen wrote to Bo at 21:01 28 Dec:

 JB> Hi Bo.

 JB> 28-Dec-02 02:53:58, Bo Simonsen wrote to Lawrence Garvin


 BS> BTW do you know who has the trademark UNIX? Is it Caledera or
 BS> AT&T?

 JB> The Santa Cruz Organisation (SCO) was part of AT&T (before the
 JB> splitting) and it held the trademeark.

Actually, Jasen, this is slighly incorrect. SCO was /never/ part of
AT&T. SCO did license the Unix trademark from AT&T for a short
time. This was marked by the replacement of SCO Xenix with SCO Unix. When
AT&T divested the trademark, SCO dropped their licensing arrangement
and changed the product name from SCO Unix to SCO OpenServer.

The Santa Cruz Organization was a family-owned business based in Santa
Cruz, California.

 JB> Caldera now owns SCO

And, as you note, was acquired by Caldera a while back.

 JB> but somewhere along the way they trademark was sold to "the open
 JB> group" or similar..

As I recall.. and this one is foggy for me.. AT&T divested their Unix
interests and sold them to Novell. Concurrent with that sale, the Unix
trademark was transferred to the Open Systems Foundation, where it still
resides.

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