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Who owns the UNIX trademark?

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I am currently enrolled in a course that is teaching me UNIX fundamentals, such as common commands and such. After doing some digging on UNIX, I came across the rabbit hole of legal battles over who owns UNIX, and the UNIX wars. I have done some research, but the sources are sort of dated (circa 2003 - 2004) and have conflicting information as far as who owns it. Here are a couple of the sources I have found: https://www.zdnet.com/article/who-really-owns-unix/ - states that the Open Group owns it https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=175171&seqNum=2 - states that the SCO owns it After reading these sources, it sounds like the Open Group is claiming to own the UNIX trademark, while the SCO claims to own the UNIX source code. Am I understanding that correctly?
Asked by Ultracrepidarian (431 rep)
Aug 31, 2021, 10:31 PM
Last activity: Sep 3, 2021, 12:17 PM