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- From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <1833@adagio.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 11:51:07 GMT
- References: <1821@adagio.UUCP> <14ojorINNlm5@disaster.Germany.EU.net> <1992Jul24.171828.11246@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
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- In article <1992Jul24.171828.11246@Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >[ I can't resist one more post ]
- >
- >In <14ojorINNlm5@disaster.Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
- >
- >>Does that mean that anyone having seen a Ford and then goes off designing
- >>hir own car will be sued by Ford for the reason of having been exposed
- >>to Ford cars ?
- >
- >There is a difference between reading the source, and using the
- >program.
- >
- >HAS ANYONE COMPARED THE CODE THEMSELVES? Could someone with a source
- >license FTP the damn NET2 release, pass them through "indent" and then
- >compare them?
-
- Well, considering some aspects of the suit, I hope that nobody who has
- seen AT&T code will admit to the fact on the net, but I can state that
- somebody close to me has compared some selected BSDI and SVR4 sources
- and has found very little similarity. Where there was similarity, the
- AT&T sources also contained copyright notices from the Regents of the
- University of California. The dissimilarity goes to the point that the
- parameters to certain key functions are different in number, type and
- meaning. With the exception of AT&T borrowing from UCB, they would
- appear to be different implementations of an operating system of the
- kind defined by POSIX.
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