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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!odin!sgihub!sgitokyo!kandall From: kandall@nsg.sgi.com (Michael Kandall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <KANDALL.92Aug5145515@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> Date: 5 Aug 92 19:55:15 GMT References: <45961@shamash.cdc.com> <25138@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> <7045@skye.ed.ac.uk> <KANDALL.92Aug4161214@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <1992Aug4.162951.25999@pony.Ingres.COM> <o5n24ss@twilight.wpd.sgi.com> Sender: news@nsg.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Nihon Silicon Graphics, Japan Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com's message of Tue, 4 Aug 92 21: 09:29 GMT >>>>> On Tue, 4 Aug 92 21:09:29 GMT, coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge) said: Don> Right. Like Multics, the MIT ancestor of Unix. If USL/AT&T are Don> claiming intellectual property rights, how do they deal with Don> Multics? The Multics-UNIX and UNIX-386BSD comparison does not hold up. UNIX is significantly different than Multics in enough ways that I view it as an entirely different object. 386BSD was built and (until recently) has been marketed at a UNIX-clone. Yes, when is something different enough to call it ``significantly'' different is difficult to quantify. Mike ----