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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|ichips!mipon2!jlitvin From: jlitvin@speedstr.intel.com (John Litvin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <JLITVIN.92Jul28161215@speedstr.intel.com> Date: 29 Jul 92 00:12:15 GMT References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> <3674@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Jul22.163407.10823@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <14101@ksr.com> <BZS.92Jul25165147@ussr.std.com> Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account) Organization: Intel Corporation, Multibus Unix Engineering, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: bzs@ussr.std.com's message of Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:51:47 GMT > From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) > >AT&T probably spends more money on coffee for employees than BSDI will ever > >handle. Assuming they aren't squished like a bug by AT&T's legal staff. From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein) > First, it's USL doing the suing. I'm not sure exactly what difference > that makes but I suspect it makes at least some difference. I do > think, however, sending any message to AT&T will be helpful. > Does anyone have a list of USL shareholders? I believe Novell is a > large shareholder in USL. May as well get the targets right, because > ultimately all this activity by USL has to please their shareholders, > especially the big ones. Here is the list of the 11 companies that bought shares of USL from AT&T. AT&T easily remains the majority owner. (I dug this list out of the June 1991 Unix Review that mentioned the USL press release). Amdahl Corp. Motorola Inc. Novell Inc. Sun Microsystems Inc. ICL plc. Ing. C. Olivetti & Co. S.p.A. Fujitsu Ltd. Institute for Information Industry (Taiwan) NEC Corp. OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd. Toshiba Corp. John Litvin