In the late '80s, Sun Microsystems and AT&T began a joint effort to merge BSD with System V, AT&T's version of Unix that they had commercialized following the breakup of the Bell System.

The product of their collaboration, called Unix System V Release 4.0, became available two years later and combined features from System V Release 3, BSD, SunOS and Microsoft Corp.’s Xenix.

Even as it continues to battle for Unix ownership in court, the SCO Group plans to auction off most all of its Unix assets, including “certain Unix System V software products and related ...

However, we do care about customers and users of Unix systems who depend on the Unix trademark as an indicator of trust. The Open Group actively pursues anyone who puts this trademark in harm's way.

The SCO Group lawsuit against IBM for copyright infringement of the UNIX System V source code is not going away. In fact, it gets more interesting with each passing week. On July 21, Darl McBride ...

In 1994, Novell, which had earlier acquired the Unix systems business from AT&T, decided to shed everything in its product portfolio not directly related to networking.

As it continues its legal fight to enforce its ownership claims for Unix System V source code, The SCO Group Inc. today said it has now received U.S. copyrights for the code.

An open letter to the Linux community published this week by Silicon Graphics indicates that SGI has conducted a comprehensive comparison of the Linux kernel and the Unix System V source code ...

The company terminates a second IBM Unix license, the one that covers the discontinued Dynix/ptx operating system IBM obtained through its 1999 acquisition of Sequent.