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From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI?
References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:26:07 GMT
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Knight of the Living Dead writes
->
-> As I recall when System 5 Revision 4.0 was released, it was described
-> (to me, anyway) as an attempt to gain "BSD Compatibility". I'm wondering
-> if the reason why AT&T held out sueing BSDI this long is so they could
-> claim copyright of BSD's code/style/look/feel/etc while it was still
-> popular, and then smash all the competition.
->
-> If so, Steve Jobs at NeXT may find MACH being charged with having
-> unlicenced BSD-like code that is property of AT&T.
->
I'm pretty sure NeXT pays for an AT&T lisence. (i.e. royalties and all
as well as payment to Adobe, Microsoft, and now probably Novell, and probably
many others.) which probably explains why NeXTStep 486 won't be as cheap as
NT. Now if the Suit blows over and NeXT moved to MACH 3.0 and 386bsdi, maybe
things would be a little cheaper there ;-)
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