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- From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- In-Reply-To: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu's message of 25 Jul 92 10:14:13 GMT
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:14:02
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- In article <1992Jul25.061414.3401@spcvxb.spc.edu> terry@spcvxb.spc.edu
- (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
-
- | If AT&T/USL wins this case, this means that any vendor can claim that they
- | have rights of "intellectual ancestry" or some such balderdash over any pack-
- | age found on the net. What would you think if they claimed that AT&T/USL had
- | "rights" to GCC because the specification of C was originally developed by
- | them?
-
- In this specific case, AT&T cannot do this, because they specifically
- gave up any rights to the "C" language as part of the ANSI (and now
- ISO) standardization. ANSI would not have allowed a standard
- controlled in this fashion. I believe that AT&T did do the same thing
- for the interfaces that have become POSIX interfaces.
- --
- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861
- Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142
-
- You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
-