Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- events:free_licenses [2016/01/04 13:59] – [And Then, Free Source Licenses] wkt
+++ events:free_licenses [2022/08/15 02:38] – old revision restored (2016/01/04 13:37) 149.57.16.137
@@ Line 126: / Line 126: @@
 After that, it was a bit anticlimactic. People would purchase a Unix source license through SCO's website, Dion would e-mail me their name, I would provide access to the Unix Archive, and periodically Dion would [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Emails/dionj_wkt.html#19980407105028.33236@sco.com|snail-mail me photocopies]] of their signed licenses.
-===== And Then, Free Source Licenses =====
-On the [[http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/oldnews.html|13th of May, 2000]], SCO changed the price of their early Unix source licenses to $0, i.e. free. I don't seem to have an e-mail trail that describes the motivation behind this; however, by this time Dion had passed the early Unix reins over to David Eyes at SCO ([[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Emails/dionj_wkt.html#2.2.32.19981123234323.009a45c0@mammoth.sco.com|e-mail]] dated November 1998).
-SCO now provided a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20000815225122/http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient.html|click-through page]] on their website where one could obtain the source license, and SCO still notified me of the new license holders. However, the click-through page (once clicked), gave the new license holder [[http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/pupsfaq.html|a link to the Unix Archive]].
-By March 2001, over 1,800 people had either bough the US$100 Unix source license or had obtained the free Unix source license (e-mail to David Eyes). At this stage, SCO were in the process of selling the Unix business over to Caldera. I had asked David: "What's happening with Caldera and the transfer of this IP, and is there anybody there that I can contact yet?" (//ibid.//). David wrote back: "The transaction still hasn't closed.  I believe that the public word is that it will likely close in April.  There was a last-minute renegotiation regarding the rights to OpenServer, which Caldera will now own completely as well." (//ibid.//)
 //(incomplete, more to come!)//