Attachmate To Retain Novell Unix Copyrights

angry tapir writes "Novell's copyrights for the Unix operating system will remain under Attachmate's control as part of the companies' pending merger, a Novell spokesman has revealed. The confirmation, which came in a terse message posted to Novell's website, seems to rule out questions of whether Unix assets are part of some 882 patents being sold to a Microsoft-led consortium, CPTN Holdings, as part of the deal."

Re:Mono Framework

[noidentity]

I am wondering what happens to Mono?

I don't know; are you?

Re:why should BSD care?

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Your arguments are logical, well-thought-out, and eminently fair.

Which is why they would be utterly irrelevant to Microsoft.

Re:We gotta buy them.

[Anonymous Coward]

Not as funny as farting when the TSA fingers your asshole.

Re:We gotta buy them.

[Jaxoreth]

Actually, OldSCO was pretty cool, if a little pricey. Caldera Linux, after purchasing the name and UNIX business was a bunch of pricks.

While the Santa Cruz Operation had a legitimate business, SCO UNIX was the most painful operating system I've ever had to use or administer. Out of the box, hitting Delete would backspace over the prompt. Even DOS didn't do that.