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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
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:20:07 GMT
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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
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"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) |