From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 25 6:40:40 2003 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 34C5737B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 06:40:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from digiflux.org (43.Red-80-59-151.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.59.151.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3B343EB2 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 06:40:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olivas@digiflux.org) Received: from sentinel (sniffy [10.0.0.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by digiflux.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h0PEeZIF046456 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:40:35 +0100 (CET) From: "Stacy Olivas" To: Subject: RE: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... (was on freebsd-questions, moved to freebsd-chat) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:40:25 +0100 Message-ID: <001801c2c47f$b2fb2790$0502000a@sentinel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <3E31B80F.E08E135@mindspring.com> Importance: Normal 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 > 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