Sigh. Circa 1991-95, when SCO was a real UNIX company -- revenues of $200M/year, the most popular vendor of UNIX for i386, not suing anyone -- I worked in techpubs with the group doing core OS development. There go some interesting memories.
(The SCO we all know and hate is actually the rump of Caldera, a Linux vendor established around 1995 with capital from Ray Noorda, based in Utah. Caldera got into the habit of litigation by buying the rump of Digital Research -- inventors of CP/M -- and inheriting their lawsuit against Microsoft for locking Windows 95 down so it wouldn't run on DR-DOS. They cleaned up to the tune of around $500M, but still burned through their capital without overcoming SuSE or Red Hat, at which point they bought most of SCO (the rest became a middleware vendor) and tried to do it again. Only this time they picked on IBM and Novell, and the rest is history ...)
(Did I say "hate"? That's four years of my resume that's a toxic exclusion zone, thanks to those shysters ...)
(The SCO we all know and hate is actually the rump of Caldera, a Linux vendor established around 1995 with capital from Ray Noorda, based in Utah. Caldera got into the habit of litigation by buying the rump of Digital Research -- inventors of CP/M -- and inheriting their lawsuit against Microsoft for locking Windows 95 down so it wouldn't run on DR-DOS. They cleaned up to the tune of around $500M, but still burned through their capital without overcoming SuSE or Red Hat, at which point they bought most of SCO (the rest became a middleware vendor) and tried to do it again. Only this time they picked on IBM and Novell, and the rest is history ...)
(Did I say "hate"? That's four years of my resume that's a toxic exclusion zone, thanks to those shysters ...)