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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcomsv!calcite!vjs From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) Subject: Re: AIX (was I hope this wont ignite a major flame w) Message-ID: <CttEFs.2uu@calcite.rhyolite.com> Organization: Rhyolite Software Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 17:11:51 GMT References: <311omd$bve@server.st.usm.edu> <313v75$onl@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <9407302107.59@rmkhome.com> Lines: 22 In article <9407302107.59@rmkhome.com> rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) writes: > ... >From what I understand: > >The original AIX was a BSD port to Intel processors and the RT. > >IBM then rewrote the entire OS in their own image so that they >wouldn't have to pay anyone royalties. > >AIX is a UNIX clone. AIX may be a UNIX clone, and it may be the IBM image of UNIX, but do you really think that IBM did a clean-room re-implemenation or that if IBM had that USL would believe or that IBM pays no money to USL or that IBM has changed their long standing policy of paying practically all license fees instead of fighting? (I guess in order to support their own silly patents.) If so, I bet you're wrong. IBM may have a paid-up license, but that's not the same thing as no royalties at all. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com