[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Arne Vajhøj]

Michael Roach wrote:
> TIME Magazine Person of the Year for 2006 Bill Pechter
> <pechter at bandit.pechter.dyndns.org.pechter.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> In article <op.uqzk35s7hv4qyg at murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>,
>> Tom Linden <tom at kednos.company> wrote:
>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
>>
>> Only the strong survive.  Sun's never managed to capitalize on the purchase
>> of Storage Tek et. al. and the opening up of Solaris as Open Source.
> 
> I'd always hoped that IBM would scrounge for spare change in their lobby
> couches, buy SCO, and open UNIX.

I believe an american judge rules that Novell owns the Unix copyrights.

The trademark has been at Open Group for a long time now.

Arne