Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:40:25 +0100 From: "Stacy Olivas" <olivas@digiflux.org> To: <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... (was on freebsd-questions, moved to freebsd-chat) Message-ID: <001801c2c47f$b2fb2790$0502000a@sentinel> In-Reply-To: <3E31B80F.E08E135@mindspring.com>
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> Stacy Olivas wrote: > > > > Here's a thought what about the intellectual property that > > > > the've enjoy at the expense of all of the BSD's? What would > > > > happen if the BSD world recinded the rights to TCP/IP and > > > > demanded compensation for it's use from say everyone? > > > > > > Mike, the rights to IP itself are with DARPA, so we couldn't > > > recind it, but, UCB designed the origional UNIX IP stack (which > > > could be installed as a supliment to AT&T UNIX as part of the > > > patch set then known as BSD). If we recinded that, even MS > > > would have to pay up for including the code in Windows 2000. > > > > Microsoft pay for infringing on someone else's IP rights? > > Microsoft is not "infringing". > I now they aren't.. I was attempting to make a joke.. sorry. :) > The standard license grant is "in perpetuity". > > Even if it wasn't, Microsoft paid for the port of the BSD code by > BSD people (rumor has it that they paid $3M for it). $3M? ouch... > > -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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