Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:38:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Travis Cole <tcole@nihilist.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD wars again (was: Pet Theory for World Domination) Message-ID: <20000716113807.D57098@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000714074904.A30544@nihilist.org> References: <200007140329.XAA28932@rac10.wam.umd.edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000713235500.29728D-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <20000714074904.A30544@nihilist.org>
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On Friday, 14 July 2000 at 7:49:04 -0700, Travis Cole wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:56:57PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Howard wrote: >> >> :In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007132020180.3210-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>, The >> :Clark Family writes: >> :> >> :> SCO bought UNIXWare from Novell didn't they? >> : >> :Yes. Also, wasn't this purchase made *during* the court proceedings? >> >> I think that was AT&T selling UNIX to Novell. My history is sort of fuzzy, >> though. > > Yeah, thats right. AT&T were they guys going after BSD, and when they > sold UNIX to Novell that pretty much put a stop to it. Well, as Dennis Ritchie pointed out, it was USL, not AT&T, who instigated the law suit. They were a daughter of AT&T, but AT&T corporate management was not involved. > But by that time BSD was mostly UNIX code free anyway. It was before the lawsuit as well. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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