On Fri, 22 May 2015 14:17:43 -0500, "John Gateley" <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > > Eh. It was Just Another UNIX-Variant back in the '90s. Unless it was > > during the time they claimed THEY were UNIX and everyone else was a > > variant? I forget who owned what name when. > > SCO bought UnixWare from Novell in 95. UnixWare was in some sense > the direct descendant from Unix System Laboratories. At that point > they began claiming they owned the name (and if I remember right, > Novell came back and said something like "sorry, we sold you > everything EXCEPT the rights to the name Unix"). > I started somewhere around then to use the term Un_x because I couldn't remember which entity it was a registered (or unregistered) trademark for!!