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- From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth....
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.215906.10708@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:59:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.112705.6276@cs.cornell.edu> murthy@cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) writes:
- >Y'know, Doug Comer's XINU, Linus Torvalds' Linux, Tanenbaum's Minix,
- >and I'm sure there are others, all stand as good arguments that the technology
- >if UNIX isn't just an AT&T invention anymore - the V sytem, Mach,
- >ad a zillin other ways of implementing the core of UNIX exist.
- >
- >I think that even if BSDI fails, even if 386BSD fails, and even
- >if the entire Berkeley net2 distrib gets nuked,
- >free unix is perhaps 2 years away - in 2 years, linux will be stable.
- >In two years, the GNU Hurd will be stable. And AT&T can
- >do almost nothing abot that, eh?
-
- I'm somewhat concerned about the possibility that some Linux developers
- might be familiar with AT&T code. For legal reasons it might be best
- to make sure that all Linux kernel code is developed by people with
- no prior experience with AT&T code.
-
- >But you're right - I'm pissed, too. From what I heard of the history,
- >BSD started with V6 unix, a developed a _whole_ _lot_
- >of what currently constitutes UNIX. To claim that AT&T did ti all is
- >goinga bit far.
-
- The unfortunite thing is that money makes right in court. Atleast Linux
- is an international effort and may be harder for AT&T to stop.
-
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