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- From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.mach
- Subject: Re: AT&T USL vs. BSDI/UCB, Mach3, OSF/1, GNU HURD, Linux
- Date: 5 Sep 1992 11:03:43 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Sender: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
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- References: <PCG.92Aug30225902@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> <37649@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <PCG.92Sep5151041@aberdb.aber.ac.uk>
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- In article <PCG.92Sep5151041@aberdb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk
- (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
-
- >Even worse, odds are that just as Richard Rashid, the developer of Mach,
- >a person who has been privvy to and been working with licensed USL trade
- >secrets for over a dozen years, has become Microsoft's technical
- >director for NT, there are several UCB alumni that have contributed to
- >the development of BSD4.x that are now working for Microsoft on Windows NT.
-
- But, the chief architect of Windows NT is Dave Cutler, the father of
- DEC's RSX-11M and VMS operating systems. So, perhaps in this lawsuit-
- happy climate, DEC should sue Microsoft also. Maybe a combination of
- AT&T and DEC can do to Microsoft what Apple couldn't. :)
-
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- Stephen Kurtzman | "where desire writhed there stands a stone;
- kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu | the change was sudden and complete"
- | -- Maggie Roche
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