On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 2:17 PM, John Gateley <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > 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"). And before that SCO bought a different Unix variant(Xenix) from Micro-Soft.