Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:02:01 -0500 From: Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD Message-ID: <eefa2c8b0909281102q559c724bta41964a420f2f6af@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200909281752.n8SHpmdo071531@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <eefa2c8b0909281016vca9f9fu5f44cedd098b6304@mail.gmail.com> <200909281752.n8SHpmdo071531@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Thank you, Julian - Me bits be scrambled, methinks. Apologies all, correcting it I am now., For the record, the agreement was made in 1994. Here is the complete text. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=3D20041126130302760 -- :D On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > Don Wilde wrote: >> What is incorrect, Julian? > .. etc. > > In 1977 I started learning Unix V6 as a Unix newbie. =A0There were > no UCB bits I heard of till csh & job control & vi floated in to > my Uni. a few years on, maybe 1980 +/- a year or 2, I'd guess about > 82. =A0Can't remember when I heard of first complete BSD releases for > PDP/VAX but after the individual bits. > > man 3 ctime > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0"The functions ctime(), gmtime() and localtime() all take > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0as an argument a time value representing the time in secon= ds > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970; see time(3= ))." > > 1970 in context quoted below ? No. > >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wro= te: >> >> From: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Don Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> >> > Don Wilde wrote: >> >> http://www.engineeringjobfuture.com/articles/leverage/open-source-sof= tware >> > Article contains >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0"The lawsuit was bitterly contested, but finally resolv= ed. >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Everything developed before 1970 was declared by a judg= e >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0to be open forever more, and everything developed after >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0that was AT&T's property." >> > >> > False. I stopped reading at that point, after all, the journalist >> > was probably just winging it, after a few emails to people who read >> > the activity at the time (inc many of us doubtless). >> > >> > The people who know Most about the UCB Lite agreement, won't speak muc= h >> > anyway - they signed non disclosures. >> >> -- >> -- Don Wilde >> =A0 =A0" Engineering the Future " >> http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix= .com > =A0Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. =A0 =A0 =A0http://asciiribbon= .org > =A0Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 http://berkl= ix.com/free/ > --=20 -- Don Wilde " Engineering the Future " http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com
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