Research questions WRT SCO's complaint

I'm doing some factual research on the SCO issue.  In particular there
appear to be numerous factual errors in the complaint.

Anyone with answers to the following:

  - What x86 Unices have there been?  When did they emerge?  I'm aware
    of Xenix (which became SCO), Solaris X86, BSDi, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
    NetBSD, AIX/86, Dynix, and (for a broad definition of Intel
    architechtures), QNX.  I'm not clear of timelines.  And any others
    would be welcomed.

  - Was RMS ever faculty at MIT?  My understanding was he had a research
    position at the AI lab, but never held a professorship.  His
    biography (by Sam Williams) makes no mention.

  - What's the timeline of Project Monterey?  Best I can find, it was
    launched 1998.  That's seven years after the first release of
    the Linux kernel. 

  - Early GNU/Linux development -- I know Maddog (then with DEC) got
    involved in 1991/92.  Any other Unix vendor types on the bandwagon
    early?  Cygnus also had ties to Sun IIRC.

  - Unix marketshare.  Does anyone have values for breakdown of
    marketshare through the 1990s of the major Unix flavors?  My
    understanding is that SCO was never much more than a bit player in
    the x86 market.  Possibly a fair number of deployments, but low
    overall valuation.
    
  - SCO's primary thrusts appear to be trade secret / contract
    violation, and possible (though unspecified) copyright violation.
    Claiming trade secret status on a design and concept which are now
    33 years old, the basis of an open standard (POSIX) and a brand
    certification (Unix98), as well as the foundation of an entire
    industry and family of competing products:  (Sun:  Solaris, HP:
    HPUX, IBM: AIX, BSDi: BSDi, Data General: DGUX, DEC (now HP): Tru64,
    SGI: Irix, GNU/Linux, Minix, GNU/Hurd, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD...)
    SCO can hardly claim trade secrecy status based on this
    preponderence of implementations (many on, or including, an x86
    port).  Anyone familiar with the early POSIX compliance status of
    GNU/Linux itself?

  - References for early articles pointing to the threat that GNU/Linux
    posed to SCO (I *know* this was one of the first Unix flavors
    identified as threatened by GNU/Linux) would also be appreciated.
    I'll dig for same.

Peace.

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