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From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
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Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
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Date: 24 Jan 93 02:49:58 GMT
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In article <1993Jan23.145950.681@nobeltech.se> ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>In article <MIKE.93Jan22144301@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at> mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Gschwind) writes:
>>
>>Wait a moment! Who copied design, algorithms, data structures,... from
>>whom? UCB from ATT/USL? Or ATT/USL from ATT? 
>
>Another amusing thought - how 'unix'-like is Plan 9 ? Will Bell Labs be sued
>by USL ? I somehow get the feeling that these guys HAVE seen Unix sourcecode.
>Will this prohibit Plan-9 from ever beeing distributed ?
>

"Plan-9 is not UNIX" sez Mr. Pike. Surely that will be good enough for 
the courts.  They even took out the "you are not expected to understand
this" comment that made V6 UNIX a success.

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