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- From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI?
- References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:26:07 GMT
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- Knight of the Living Dead writes
- ->
- -> As I recall when System 5 Revision 4.0 was released, it was described
- -> (to me, anyway) as an attempt to gain "BSD Compatibility". I'm wondering
- -> if the reason why AT&T held out sueing BSDI this long is so they could
- -> claim copyright of BSD's code/style/look/feel/etc while it was still
- -> popular, and then smash all the competition.
- ->
- -> If so, Steve Jobs at NeXT may find MACH being charged with having
- -> unlicenced BSD-like code that is property of AT&T.
- ->
-
- I'm pretty sure NeXT pays for an AT&T lisence. (i.e. royalties and all
- as well as payment to Adobe, Microsoft, and now probably Novell, and probably
- many others.) which probably explains why NeXTStep 486 won't be as cheap as
- NT. Now if the Suit blows over and NeXT moved to MACH 3.0 and 386bsdi, maybe
- things would be a little cheaper there ;-)
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