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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!newsserver.pixel.kodak.com!laidbak!tellab5!vpnet!serveme!gagme!joeg From: joeg@gagme (joe grosch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Jul28.060822.29603@serveme.chi.il.us> Date: 28 Jul 92 06:08:22 GMT References: <l6rld6INN3dh@neuro.usc.edu> Sender: usenet@serveme.chi.il.us Organization: GAGME - Public Access UNIX of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Earth Lines: 24 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes: [...Stuf deleted to save bandwidth...] : This isn't just AT&T vs. BSDI -- it's AT&T vs. the academic community which : produced most of the intellectual property which makes the 'AT&T UNIX' and : 'Berkeley UNIX' compatible operating systems so valuable today -- virtual : memory management, interprocess communication, networking, fast filesystems, : efficient compilers -- and all of the other things which weren't contained : in the Bell Research 32V system turned over to UC Regents so many years ago. : Good Point! AT&T incorporated all the above features into System V without paying Berkeley for a source code license. It might be a good idea to get Bostic, et.al to file a friend of the court brief on just these points. I urge all those on the net who have copys of either Net2, BSDI, or 386BSD to start making copys and distributing them as far and wide as possible. AT&T has found that the genie is out of the bottle and they want to stuff him back in. Lets make sure it's not possible. -- Josef Grosch | It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town... joeg@gagme.chi.il.us | New Yorker by birth, Minnesoten by choice