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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
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Don Coolidge:
>Right. Like Multics, the MIT ancestor of Unix. If USL/AT&T are
>claiming intellectual property rights, how do they deal with Multics?

Quite simply: Multics was a joint effort of General Electric (later
Honeywell), M.I.T. and (AT&T) Bell Labs.  M.I.T. may have been the last
party to abandon the sinking ship, but that doesn't mean that they
developed Multics by themselves.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff

``Leave the evil grasping to us.'' - A. L. Arms, UNIX licensing, WECo.