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echo: unix
to: Bo Simonsen
from: Lawrence Garvin
date: 2002-12-31 12:59:02
subject: what flavors?

Bo wrote to Lawrence at 02:53 28 Dec:

 BS> Hello Lawrence.

 BS> 27 Dec 02 18:46, you wrote to John Donohue:

 LG> Prior to the Caldera purchase of SCO, and the concurrent growth of
 LG> freeBSDs and Linux on Intel, SCO OpenServer had about an 80% market
 LG> share. Caldera did a great job of tanking that market share.

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

Unless something has changed, the trademark is held by the Open Systems
Foundation, not by any particular vendor/manufacturer.

OSF established a set of criteria that must be met in order for a product
to carry the name "Unix". I believe there's also a hefty
licensing fee involved.

One of those two reasons is why SCO changed their product name from
"SCO Unix" to "SCO OpenServer".


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