[SunRescue] Caldera owns Unix? WTF?

[Brian Dunbar]

God Bless the Internet and the Search Enginges that crawl upon her.

http://www.opengroup.org/trademarks.htm

Look like The Open Group _wants_ to try and enforce the trademark.  Good
luck, I say.	brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Loch [mailto:kloch at opnsys.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:17 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Caldera owns Unix? WTF?


Isn't "Unix" such a common generic term that it is unenforcable
as a trademark?  If there ever was another "Kleenex", "Unix" has to
be it.

KL

Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> Bob,
> I am not aware of what you are talking about, but I assume that Caldera
bought the part of SCO that used to be the part of Novell, that used to be
the part of AT&T that was developing Unix. Is this what happened? If so, no
biggie, IMHO.
> 
> They bought the product called Unix, and they can license it out to other
vendors.
> 
> Sun doesn't need to pay, since they made a one-time perpetual license
payment in the millions of dollars, IIRC (to SCO IIRC).
> 
> Owning Unix doesn't really allow them to do anything other than charge
license fees, oh and control the definition of what is (and is not) Unix. I
think their interest lies solely in th eformer, not the latter (they want
the revenue, not the control).
> 
> Just my $.02,
> 
> Ken
> 
> Original post:
> 
>         For the sake of discussion, anyone care to comment on
>         the recent Caldera takeover of UNIX?  Caldera is a big
>         Linux house, too. I sense a marriage of the two, which
>         could affect a lot of UNIX down the road, if I am
>         reading things correctly.
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