From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 16 5:40:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EE737B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 05:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from callisto.picknowl.com.au (callisto.picknowl.com.au [203.87.94.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCDA43E9E for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 05:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: from daemon (popadl-04-192.picknowl.com.au [210.48.131.192]) by callisto.picknowl.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9GCeO912813 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:10:25 +0930 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Unix history Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:09:36 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210162209.37061.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I was wondering if the commercial Unix variants are really unix 'clones' = in=20 the same way that FBSD & Linux are, or do/did they contain AT&T code? They often seem to be refered to as Unix, but I assume that (according th= e=20 laywers) they are not unix anymore than FBSD is. If so, it's interesting that AT&T let so many companies copy their softwa= re! Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message