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		tiffanyh on July 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success You might be confusing SCO and USL. SCO brought lawsuits against IBM (Linux) in 2003. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internati.... USL brought lawsuit against BSD in 1992. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_In....

loeg on July 6, 2023 | [–]

Novell bought USL in 1993 and sold the corpse to SCO in 1995. They're related entities.

philjohn on July 6, 2023 | [–]

You're indeed right.

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