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- From: jlitvin@speedstr.intel.com (John Litvin)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- In-Reply-To: bzs@ussr.std.com's message of Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:51:47 GMT
- Message-ID: <JLITVIN.92Jul28161215@speedstr.intel.com>
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- Organization: Intel Corporation, Multibus Unix Engineering, Hillsboro, OR
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- <1992Jul22.163407.10823@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <14101@ksr.com>
- <BZS.92Jul25165147@ussr.std.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:12:15 GMT
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- > From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- > >AT&T probably spends more money on coffee for employees than BSDI will ever
- > >handle. Assuming they aren't squished like a bug by AT&T's legal staff.
-
- From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
- > First, it's USL doing the suing. I'm not sure exactly what difference
- > that makes but I suspect it makes at least some difference. I do
- > think, however, sending any message to AT&T will be helpful.
-
- > Does anyone have a list of USL shareholders? I believe Novell is a
- > large shareholder in USL. May as well get the targets right, because
- > ultimately all this activity by USL has to please their shareholders,
- > especially the big ones.
-
- Here is the list of the 11 companies that bought shares of USL from
- AT&T. AT&T easily remains the majority owner. (I dug this list out
- of the June 1991 Unix Review that mentioned the USL press release).
-
- Amdahl Corp.
- Motorola Inc.
- Novell Inc.
- Sun Microsystems Inc.
- ICL plc.
- Ing. C. Olivetti & Co. S.p.A.
- Fujitsu Ltd.
- Institute for Information Industry (Taiwan)
- NEC Corp.
- OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd.
- Toshiba Corp.
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- John Litvin
-