!!! Overview
A little [History] on [UNIX]

A summary of [Unix] (officially trademarked as [UNIX]) was:
* [1969|Year 1969] - originally developed by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs
* [1993|Year 1993] - [Novell INC] bought Unix System Laboratories from AT&T giving them rights to the Unix operating system
* [1993|Year 1993] - [Novell INC] transferred the [UNIX] trademark and certification rights to the X/Open Consortium.
* [1995|Year 1995] - [Novell INC] sold existing [UNIX] licenses, plus rights to further develop the System V code base to the Santa Cruz Operation 
* [1996|Year 1996] - X/Open merged with [OSF], creating [The Open Group]. (They define what is and what is not a "UNIX" operating system)
* [2000|Year 2000] - [SCO] sold its entire [UNIX] business and assets to [Caldera Systems]
* [2003|Year 2003] - The SCO Group started [legal] action against various users and vendors of [Linux]; [Novell INC] disputed the [SCO] Group's claim to hold copyright on the [UNIX] source base
* [2007|Year 2007] - a major portion of the case (the fact that [Novell INC] had the copyright to [UNIX], and that the [SCO] Group had improperly kept money that was due to [Novell INC])
* [2009|Year 2009] - [SCO] successfully got the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn this decision which sent the lawsuit back to the courts
* [2010|Year 2010] - [SCO] Group's case against [Novell INC] for slander of title was heard by a jury in Utah, which unanimously ruled in favor of [Novell INC]

!! [Darl McBride]
A little history on [Darl McBride]
* [1959|Year 1959] - Born
* [1988|Year 1988] - was a manager at [Novell INC], 
* [1996|Year 1996] - Vice President of IKON Office Solutions.
* [1998|Year 1998] - IKON fired him after his involvement in the execution of 33 business acquisitions
* [1998|Year 1998] - Sued IKON for $10 million, claiming breach of contract, nonpayment of wages, and fraud. IKON counter-sued, and the case was eventually settled.
* [2002|Year 2002] - Became the CEO of [SCO]
* [2003|Year 2003] - The [SCO] Group, during McBride's tenure as CEO, initiated litigation ([SCO] v. [IBM]) 
* [2009|Year 2009] - McBride was terminated as Chief Executive Officer and President of The SCO Group

!!! [Santa Cruz Operation] ([SCO])
Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) was a software company based in Santa Cruz, California which was best known for selling three [UNIX] variants for [Intel] x86 processors
* [1979|Year 1979] - founded  by Doug Michels and his father Larry Michels as a [UNIX] porting and consulting company. The [Santa Cruz Operation], Inc. was incorporated in January, 1979.
* [1993|Year 1993] - [SCO] acquired two smaller companies and developed the product line that was named [Tarantella].
* [1993|Year 1993] - went public on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange.
* [1995|Year 1995] - [Novell INC] sold existing [UNIX] licenses, plus rights to further develop the System V code base to the [Santa Cruz Operation] 
* [2000|Year 2000] - SCO sold its entire UNIX business and assets to Caldera Systems
* [2001|Year 2001] - SCO sold its rights to Unix and the related divisions to Caldera Systems the corporation retained only its Tarantella product line, and changed its name to Tarantella, Inc.
* [2005|Year 2005] - Tarantella, Inc. was purchased by Sun Microsystems for $25,000,000 (USD). 

!!!The SCO Group, Inc. (TSG)
A brief history of The SCO Group, Inc. (TSG, informally but improperly referred to as SCO; Pink Sheets: SCOXQ) as it relates to the [UNIX] controversy:
* [1994|Year 1994] - founded by Bryan Sparks and Ransom Love receiving start-up funding the Canopy Group which was owned by the Ray Noorda Family
* [1996|Year 1996] - purchased DR-DOS from Novell and inherited the lawsuit related to Novell's claims of monopolization, illegal tying, exclusive dealing, and tortious interference by [Microsoft].
* [1997|Year 1997] - Spun off the thin client and embedded systems as Caldera Thin Clients which was renamed in 1998, to Lineo where President and CEO of Lineo was Bryan Sparks, the original founder of [Caldera Systems].
* [2000|Year 2000] - [Microsoft] reached an undisclosed settlement with Caldera, which, according to Microsoft, included a substantial payment to Caldera
* [2000|Year 2000] - Caldera acquired several UNIX properties from the Santa Cruz Operation, including OpenServer and UnixWare, proprietary operating systems for PCs that would be expected to compete directly with Linux.
* [2002|Year 2002] - Caldera joined with [SUSE] [Linux], [Turbolinux] and Conectiva to form United [Linux] in an attempt to standardize [Linux] distributions.
* [2002|Year 2002] - CEO Ransom Love left the company and was replaced by [Darl McBride], and the company changed its name to The [SCO] Group.
* [2002|Year 2002] - [SCO] began to claim that Linux "contained SCO's [UNIX] System V source code and that [Linux] was an unauthorized derivative of [UNIX]". [SCO] filed suit against [IBM] for an unprecedented US$1 billion and demanded that [Linux] end-users pay license fees.
* [2003|Year 2003] - Microsoft bolstered [SCO]'s financial situation by purchasing a license to [UNIX] technology and by helping to arrange funding.
* [2003|Year 2003] - Red Hat filed suit against SCO in Delaware.
* [2003|Year 2003] - Novell, from whom SCO claimed to have acquired its UNIX IP, announced that it had not sold the copyrights to SCO and that it retained them. In response, SCO sued Novell for slander of title in Utah, home state of both SCO and Novell.
* [2003|Year 2003] - [SCO] Group sued former customer Daimler-Chrysler
* [2004|Year 2004] - [SCO] Group sued former customer AutoZone claimming AutoZone violated SCO copyrights by using Linux
* [2004|Year 2004] - Judge Robinson denied SCO's motion to dismiss and she stayed the lawsuit pending the resolution of the [SCO] v. [IBM] lawsuit
* [2004|Year 2004] - [SCO]'s suit against Daimler-Chrysler was dismissed.
* [2007|Year 2007] - a major portion of the case (the fact that Novell had the copyright to [UNIX], and that the SCO Group had improperly kept money that was due to Novell)
* [2007|Year 2007] - SCO received NASDAQ desisting notice and trading was suspended
* [2007|Year 2007] - voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code
* [2009|Year 2009] - McBride was terminated as Chief Executive Officer and President of The SCO Group.
* [2009|Year 2009] - SCO successfully got the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn this decision which sent the lawsuit back to the courts
* [2010|Year 2010] - SCO Group's case against Novell for slander of title was heard by a jury in Utah, which unanimously ruled in favor of Novell

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