Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:17:23 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <200609121517.24177.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <8a0028260609120605h5c3e0dfey4b0976bf93d2c3d1@mail.gmail.com> References: <8a0028260609120316q7ab0d7bcydcaec44fea42e325@mail.gmail.com> <20060912123120.89833.qmail@web83110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <8a0028260609120605h5c3e0dfey4b0976bf93d2c3d1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:05, Jeff Rollin wrote: > That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the ground up to avoid AT&T > patents. So whilst some might consider BSD "real unix", it's really only > "emulating" V7 with Berkeley extensions. My understanding was that it was copyright rather than patents - and that the main reason for the settlement of the case between AT&T and BSD/University of California was that when they started comparing code, there was actually more Berkeley code in AT&T Unix than the other way round. Jonathan
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