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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!buddha.ncc.umn.edu!rodeen From: rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Jul21.152007.1126@news2.cis.umn.edu> Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD Sender: news@news2.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration) Nntp-Posting-Host: buddha.ncc.umn.edu Organization: Nutrition Coordinating Center, University of Minnesota References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:20:07 GMT Lines: 19 In article <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes: >Further, AT&T's question about the time investment of BSDI in bringing out >their product [compared with their own cost over many years] will likely go >a long way toward supporting their unfair competition claim. If it took a >small company like BSDI only a couple of years with a small team of people >to produce BSD/386 vs the multi year investment of a corporate giant - then >it is very possible AT&T may prevail on the unfair competition claim. I don't think this is a valid claim, Linus Torvalds developed the Linux system in less than one year from scratch. -Rick Odeen -- "MINIX costs $169, but the license allows | Rick Odeen making two backup copies, so the effective | rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu price can be under $60." | rutgers!umn-cs!buddha!rodeen - ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) |