Company has applied for a trademark on the term but is vague about how it plans to use the name The SCO Group Inc. is trying to revive the name of the AT&T Corp. subsidiary that once owned the rights ...

SCO was formerly named Caldera International but changed its name last year to reflect the Unix products it acquired from Santa Cruz Operation. Unix was invented more than 30 years ago by AT&T's Unix ...

The company hires high-profile attorney David Boies to see whether Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringe on Unix intellectual property the company owns. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Anyone who was surprised by this week's court decision (Another nail in SCO's Linux lawsuit coffin) has not been following the history-turned-saga of UNIX all that long. AT&T unwittingly spawned what ...

Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

DaimlerChrysler AG has asked a Michigan court to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc., saying there is “no genuine issue of material fact” in SCO’s case. Last month, ...

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In 1987, Unix System Laboratories, a part of Bell Labs at the time, began working with Sun on a system that would unify the two major Unix branches. The product of their collaboration, called Unix ...