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- From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
- Subject: Re: AT&T USL vs. BSDI/UCB, Mach3, OSF/1, GNU HURD, Linux
- Message-ID: <ellis.715622900@nova>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
- References: <PCG.92Aug30225902@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> <37649@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:08:20 GMT
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- jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
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- >In article <PCG.92Aug30225902@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- >+
- >+It would astonish me if, having set a precedent w.r.t. UCB/NET2/BSDI,
- >+USL were not to use it immediately w.r.t. CMU/Mach3/FSF. By doing so
- >+they would effectively prevent the OSF, with their current staff, from
- >+producing an OSF/n that does not require an USL Unix source license.
-
- >Could this be a reason for some commerical companies going to
- >'Chorus'. But then maybe those french fellows saw the 'New Zeland'
- >UNIX V6 kernel code. Then again, maybe the implementors of VAX/VMS
- >saw some ATT code as well, that leaves IBM, but not the PC since
- >Microsoft is a long time UNIX licensee.
-
- >But then maybe many readers have never seen the 'President's Analyst'.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Better be careful, I'd bet dollars to donuts that someone in TPC is watching
- this.
-
- >--
-
- >John Clark
- >jclark@ucsd.edu
-
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