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- From: joeg@gagme (joe grosch)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.060822.29603@serveme.chi.il.us>
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- Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:08:22 GMT
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- merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
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- : 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.
- :
-
- Good Point! AT&T incorporated all the above features into System V without
- paying Berkeley for a source code license. It might be a good idea to get
- Bostic, et.al to file a friend of the court brief on just these points.
-
- I urge all those on the net who have copys of either Net2, BSDI, or 386BSD
- to start making copys and distributing them as far and wide as possible.
- AT&T has found that the genie is out of the bottle and they want to stuff
- him back in. Lets make sure it's not possible.
-
- --
- Josef Grosch | It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town...
- joeg@gagme.chi.il.us | New Yorker by birth, Minnesoten by choice
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