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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7717 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:20:39 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11940 comp.unix.bsd:10377 comp.unix.wizards:28348 comp.org.usenix:3196 gnu.misc.discuss:7736 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!dime!chelm.cs.umass.edu!yodaiken From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <59066@dime.cs.umass.edu> Date: 24 Jan 93 02:46:54 GMT References: <1993Jan20.230616.25164@igor.tamri.com> <MIKE.93Jan22144301@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at> <C1A118.2rs@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 21 In article <C1A118.2rs@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk (Joe Sharkey) writes: > > USL has had some original ideas in the last 20 years. > Read about Multics, Paid for by the US taxpayer; BCPL, paid for by the British taxpayer. Should AT&T pay royalties for each use of a function switch in UNIX source? If we are going to have aggressive protection of property rights in software and software concepts, the taxpayers should, of course, get their share. Agreed? BTW, UNIX was developed at AT&T while it was a federally mandated national monopoly. -- yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu