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- From: rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.152007.1126@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:20:07 GMT
- References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu>
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- In article <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >Further, AT&T's question about the time investment of BSDI in bringing out
- >their product [compared with their own cost over many years] will likely go
- >a long way toward supporting their unfair competition claim. If it took a
- >small company like BSDI only a couple of years with a small team of people
- >to produce BSD/386 vs the multi year investment of a corporate giant - then
- >it is very possible AT&T may prevail on the unfair competition claim.
-
- I don't think this is a valid claim, Linus Torvalds developed the Linux
- system in less than one year from scratch.
-
- -Rick Odeen
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- "MINIX costs $169, but the license allows | Rick Odeen
- making two backup copies, so the effective | rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu
- price can be under $60." | rutgers!umn-cs!buddha!rodeen
- - ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) |
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