Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > Eli Marmor wrote: > > > > He had some mines in his way, and not everything went in the way he > > planned, so when the shares of Caldera were still very high (the DotCom > > hype) and SCO shares were down, he exploited the opportunity, and > > acquired SCO (for shares, if I recall correctly); For a very small > > amount of shares, he gained control (again...) on the sources of UNIX, > > patents, copyrights, etc. (I think that Ray Noorda left Caldera too). > > As somebody else noted, Caldera re-branded itself as "SCO". > > > > AFAIK, this is not 100% accurate. SCO sold Caldera it's rights in Sys V > Unix , the SCO derivative Unixware and the right to use the name SCO but > the company itself still exists under some other name (Tarentela, or > some such). > > Caldera/SCO didn't get any patents btw, or at least it does not hold any > patents today as per it's SEC filings.
Tarantella was a spin-off of SCO, and it started in the late 80's. SCO holds patents only in the US, but MANY patents. Any IP search engine will tell you that (I think they hold 7-10 patents; If it's important for anybody, I can re-check it later). -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
