Re: Linux, networking, etc.
By: nelgin to Dumas Walker on Mon Jul 21 2025 02:43 pm

Interesting thing about Linux was that it had SCO Compatability. It would
run MicroFocus Cobol and would run our product. I have no idea if it can
still do that.

IIRC, wasn't that what caused SCO to eventually try to sue linux, possibly
in an effort to take it over?

SCO licensed UNIX (I think it was SYSV V4.3) from AT&T, and interpreted the license agreement as if it were a transfer of ownership. As SCO saw the their paid UNIX cash cow shrinking because of Linux, they looked to other ways to generate revenues.

SCO believed that IBM contributed UNIX source code to linux. SCO then started shaking down Linux customers for a license fee and suing IBM, a company renowned for the number of attorneys they have on staff. Bad idea.

Long after SCO shipped their last SCO UNIX package, they were tied up in court until the company no longer existed.

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IIRC, wasn't that what caused SCO to eventually try to sue linux,
possibly in an effort to take it over?

You can't sue an object, a product, what-have-you. Only the person(s) or organization/company that owns or is responsible for that object.

Well, they tried to sue someone/thing associated with linux, of that I am 100% positive.


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SCO licensed UNIX (I think it was SYSV V4.3) from AT&T, and interpreted the license agreement as if it were a transfer of ownership. As SCO saw the their paid UNIX cash cow shrinking because of Linux, they looked to other ways to generate revenues.

SCO believed that IBM contributed UNIX source code to linux. SCO then started shaking down Linux customers for a license fee and suing IBM, a company renowned for the number of attorneys they have on staff. Bad idea.

Long after SCO shipped their last SCO UNIX package, they were tied up in

ourt

until the company no longer existed.

Thanks. I had forgotten a lot of the details, but knew they continued
their battle after they ceased doing business.

IIRC, the conspiracy theory back then was that the coporations involved may have leaked UNIX source into open source on purpose in order to then "take
it down." ;)


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Re: Linux, networking, etc.
By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Fri Jul 25 2025 08:04 pm

Long after SCO shipped their last SCO UNIX package, they were tied up in cou until the company no longer existed.

One year after a Defcon, I was still in Vegas on a Monday and went to have food at some restaurant in the MGM. As I was going to the restaurant, I noticed several people give me weird looks. On the way out of the restaurant I kept getting MORE weird and dirty looks. I couldn't even think of what the deal was. I'm like, "Did I spill something on my shirt?" My shirt, by the way, was the SCO logo with a red circle and line over it, like "No SCO" kinda thing. Well finally I make it to the main lobby of the MGM, and I see a giant banner that says "WELCOME SCO WORLD EXPO". Just my luck.

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phigan wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

something on my shirt?" My shirt, by the way, was the SCO logo with a
red circle and line over it, like "No SCO" kinda thing. Well finally I make it to the main lobby of the MGM, and I see a giant banner that
says "WELCOME SCO WORLD EXPO". Just my luck.

Oh, that's funny! Perfect timing, too!



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