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From: shah@amiserv.xnet.com (Hemant Shah)
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Subject: Re: Freeing UNIX and Destroying Novell - Please read this if you care about UNIX (was: UNIX on PDP-11)
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Date: 16 Dec 1994 16:51:15 GMT
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References: <CMM.0.90.0.787367041.bqt@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE> <3crav0$p21@umbc9.umbc.edu> <magnus.787572607@thakhasis>
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Magnus Nasholm (magnus@thakhasis.solace.mh.se) wrote:
->rdavis4@umbc.edu (R. D. Davis) writes:
->>In article <CMM.0.90.0.787367041.bqt@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE>,
->>Johnny Billquist <bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se> wrote:
->>Unfortunately, as far as I know, Novell (bletch!) holds the rights to
->>UNIX... I still suspect that their long-term goal is to destroy UNIX
->>as we know, and love, it. After all, I don't see them making it any
->>easier for us to obtain source licenses needed to legally install UNIX
->>on systems such as PDP-11s that we have at home or to upgrade versions
->>of UNIX for machines such as the AT&T 3B1, etc.
->If I'm not completely mistaken, Novell had to give these UNIX-rights to OSF to
->become a member of COSE...
->/Magnus
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Unles I am mistaking, didn't Novell gave Unix rights to X/Open....
an international standards organisation.
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