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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:// | 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:// | ||
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- | ===== Then: Free Unix Source Licenses ===== | ||
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- | On the [[http:// | ||
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- | SCO now provided a [[https:// | ||
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- | 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: " | ||
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- | ===== Finally: BSD-Style Unix Source Licenses ===== | ||
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- | Once the Unix business had been sold to Caldera, there were more internal changes, and in January 2002 I received this [[http:// | ||
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- | > I'm happy to let you know that Caldera International has placed the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a " | ||
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- | > Many thanks to Warren Toomey, of PUPS, and to Caldera' | ||
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- | Wow! We had gone from no licenses to binary-only licenses, to paid then free licenses, and now BSD-style licenses. I could finally make the [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== Postscript: Uncertainty ===== | ||
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- | The history from this point turns somewhat sour, as Caldera became the SCO Group (TSG, aka "New SCO") and began [[https:// | ||
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