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- From: kris@tpki.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
- Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
- nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
- schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.
- Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:37:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.093757.2711@tpki.toppoint.de>
- References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul21.142631.14517@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <mcuddy.711795634@fensende> <l6rld6INN3dh@neuro.usc.edu>
- Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD]
- X-Excuse: X-Copyright wegen Emma, Suedwestpresse und /C'T/DISKUSSIONEN.
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- In <l6rld6INN3dh@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >This isn't just AT&T vs. BSDI -- it's AT&T vs. the academic community which
- >produced most of the intellectual property which makes the 'AT&T UNIX' and
- >'Berkeley UNIX' compatible operating systems so valuable today -- virtual
- >memory management, interprocess communication, networking, fast filesystems,
- >efficient compilers -- and all of the other things which weren't contained
- >in the Bell Research 32V system turned over to UC Regents so many years ago.
-
- So then:
-
- Can anyone who has developed such valuable concepts sue AT&T
- for using them and integrating them into their product on the
- very same grounds?
-
- Kristian
- --
- Kristian Koehntopp, Harmsstrasse 98, FRG W-2300 Kiel, +49 431 676689
- "AT&T --- anything better is illegal."
- -- Keith Lofstrom, comp.unix.bsd, "AT&T sues BSDI" thread
-