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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!olivea!sgigate!odin!twilight!speaker.wpd.sgi.com!coolidge From: coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com (Don Coolidge) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <o5n24ss@twilight.wpd.sgi.com> Date: 4 Aug 92 21:09:29 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> Sender: news@twilight.wpd.sgi.com ( CNews Account at twilight.wpd.sgi.com ) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Lines: 19 In article <1992Aug4.162951.25999@pony.Ingres.COM>, jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger) writes: |> Michael Kandall asks: |> > Where do you think [BSDI] learned to write UNIX-like, mu, mt |> > operating systems? |> |> Where do you think Ken learned to write them? |> |> Models were available. Do you think AT&T invented timesharing? Right. Like Multics, the MIT ancestor of Unix. If USL/AT&T are claiming intellectual property rights, how do they deal with Multics? It would be amusing if the prior art in Multics was used to toss out the suit, and perhaps even used to extract royaly payments to MIT *from* AT&T (I can dream, right? :^) - Don Coolidge coolidge@speaker.wpd.sgi.com