SCO is claiming all modern OSes

Posted Jun 16, 2003 22:17 UTC (Mon) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339)
In reply to: SCO cancels IBM Unix license (News.com) by tjc
Parent article: SCO cancels IBM Unix license (News.com)

Is there anything that IBM has licensed from SCO that couldn't be replaced with code from FreeBSD?

SCO is not limiting it's claims to Linix, AIX or IBM. In fact, Sontag is moving towards claiming ALL modern OSes are derivative works from the AT&T code base from the 70's and thus ultimately belong to SCO. HPUX, Irix, *BSD and even Windows (which is not immune vis-a-vis the recent license purchase, since it only covered an application interface layer). See the interview in Byte:

Sontag's big reach

SCO is claiming all modern OSes

Posted Jun 16, 2003 23:32 UTC (Mon) by dmomara (guest, #11454) [Link]

UNIX is a derivitive of MULTICS.

Funny comments are copyright of the Beavers. Be hacked by the best!

UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group in the United States and other countries.

SCO is claiming all modern OSes

Posted Jun 17, 2003 1:06 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Thanks for the link. From the Byte story:

We believe that UNIX System V provided the basic building blocks for all subsequent computer operating systems, and that they all tend to be derived from UNIX System V (and therefore are claimed as SCO's intellectual property)."

Well, there's always Amiga OS. :-)

It's interesting that Chris Sontag is claiming all subsequent operating systems "tend to be derived" from System V, not just UNIX-like operating systems. I wonder, does he include Windows NT in this group, which is more akin to VMS than UNIX?

The idea that all good OS ideas flow of SCO is incredible. Has he actually used Unixware. More to the point, does he know that it sucks?