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- From: willard.UUCP!dawson@overmind.mind.org
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: RFD: comp.unix.* reorganization
- Message-ID: <2178654@overmind.citadel>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 02:54:00 GMT
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- peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Jul21.141409.23783@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- williams@nssdcs.gsfc
- > >I think that moving .minix, .linux, and .coherent under comp.unix[+] is a
- > >terrible idea. Check out the thread in comp.unix[+].bsd about AT&T suing
- > >BSDI on the issue of intellectual property. Apparently, USL are going
- > >to be real bastards about this, and possibly endanger any form of free
- > >UNIX[+] that is in any way derived from BSD. I would therefore encourage
- > >the net to use the "U" word as little as possible.
- >
- > Since coherent, minix, and linux haven't a skerrik of BSD in their makeup,
- > how would AT&T get involved? I can see how they can argue intellectual
- > contamination of BSDI, but these other systems have no such heretige.
-
- NOT. Perhaps you don't remember (but I certainly do) the discussion on the
- Linux-Activists newsgroup regarding this very topic. Many developers of
- Linux pieces have in fact had direct exposure to BSD source code. The same
- is true for Minix. I can't say, but it may well be true for Coherent.
-
- >
- > >comp.unix[+].* should
- > >go away, to be replaced by comp.os.unix[+].* (or perhaps
- comp.os.UNIX[+]TM.*
- > >which would *ONLY* be used for "true" USL licensed UNIX[+] versions.
- >
- > No, I think that keeping the net aware of how many alternatives there are
- > to True Blue AT&T code is important, and besides who are they going to sue?
- > Usenet?
-
- How 'bout Andy Tannenbaum? Linus Torvalds? Princeton-Hall? Mark Williams
- Co.?
-
- > --
- > `-_-'
- > Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U`
- >
- > Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032
-
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- dawson@willard.UUCP (Willard Dawson)
- Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
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