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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.sug,comp.org.usenix
- Subject: Re: Novell buys Unix Systems Laboratory
- Message-ID: <Bzo3tp.66w@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:46:36 GMT
- References: <BZS.92Dec21125509@world.std.com> <1992Dec22.063542.25302@cadreor.cadre.com> <1992Dec22.133249.26028@ulysses.att.com>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
- }neil@cadreor.cadre.com (Neil W. Van Dyke) writes:
- }> Barry Shein (bzs@world.std.com) wrote:
- }> > Announced today on the news, $350M, official announcement 2PM EST,
- }> > Unix is a trademark of Novell, Inc.
-
- }> Hmm... Maybe we'll be seeing a commercial Plan 9 release soon...
-
- }Plan 9 is still a research project at AT&T Bell Laboratories. It's got
- }nothing to do with USL, so far as I know.
-
- Yes, but it still makes a reasonable amount of sense though -- if you were
- thinking of taking Plan 9 to the market and were confident that it was
- going to sweep the market with its wonderfulness, then why not sucker
- a few hundred million out of some rubes from Utah? ;-)
-
- Hmmm, maybe this will revive OSF ...
-
- John
- (not at all looking forward to Novelix)
- (Novelix is a trademark of me; ha, you can't have it)
- --
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