the.com/novell unixware
proof that owning unix and winning at unix were never the same skill.
means a unix operating system novell bought from at&t so it could fight microsoft, then sold off when the fight went badly.
from in 1993 novell acquired unix system v from at&t's usl unit, hoping to bundle it with netware and crush windows nt; instead it got tangled in a doomed strategy and offloaded the unix trademark and unixware to sco in 1995.
birth yearreleased 1992, before novell even bought it
ray noorda bethe called it a war against microsoft, publicly
sold fastnovell dumped it on sco after two years
lawsuit legacythe sale seeded sco's infamous linux lawsuits
for instance
sco unixware — post-1995 lineage that fueled the sco v ibm lawsuit