{"id":298,"date":"2021-08-31T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:46:55","slug":"yet-more-sco-vs-ibm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/yet-more-sco-vs-ibm\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet More SCO vs. IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is unbelievable. For many years I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/08\/30\/sco_tsg_vs_ibm_settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this case<\/a> finished. Now I wonder if it may not outlive me in some form. Sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">One strand of the ancient and convoluted SCO versus IBM legal mess that sought to determine who owns UNIX \u2013 and perhaps has a claim over Linux \u2013 may be about to end. The case commenced in 2003, but its roots go even deeper.In 1998 IBM, the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO \u2013 a vendor of UNIX for x86 CPUs) and others teamed to create Project Monterey, with the aim of developing a version of UNIX that worked on multiple hardware platforms. Which is just what the Linux community had started doing, too.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is unbelievable. For many years I thought this case finished. Now I wonder if it may not outlive me in some form. Sad. One strand of the ancient and convoluted SCO versus IBM legal mess that sought to determine who owns UNIX \u2013 and perhaps has a claim over Linux \u2013 may be about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/yet-more-sco-vs-ibm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet More SCO vs. IBM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}