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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7722 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:20:42 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11941 comp.unix.bsd:10378 comp.unix.wizards:28349 comp.org.usenix:3197 gnu.misc.discuss:7737 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!dime!chelm.cs.umass.edu!yodaiken From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <59067@dime.cs.umass.edu> Date: 24 Jan 93 02:49:58 GMT References: <1993Jan20.230616.25164@igor.tamri.com> <MIKE.93Jan22144301@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at> <1993Jan23.145950.681@nobeltech.se> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 20 In article <1993Jan23.145950.681@nobeltech.se> ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson) writes: >In article <MIKE.93Jan22144301@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at> mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Gschwind) writes: >> >>Wait a moment! Who copied design, algorithms, data structures,... from >>whom? UCB from ATT/USL? Or ATT/USL from ATT? > >Another amusing thought - how 'unix'-like is Plan 9 ? Will Bell Labs be sued >by USL ? I somehow get the feeling that these guys HAVE seen Unix sourcecode. >Will this prohibit Plan-9 from ever beeing distributed ? > "Plan-9 is not UNIX" sez Mr. Pike. Surely that will be good enough for the courts. They even took out the "you are not expected to understand this" comment that made V6 UNIX a success. -- yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu