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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:59:23 GMT Message-ID: <1992Jul24.185923.3276@kithrup.COM> Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD References: <3674@vidiot.UUCP> <sb380.711882282@fred> <14105@ksr.com> Lines: 17 In article <14105@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes: >AT&T's problem might be that they >have been too slow to act -- in particular, "The Design of the 4.3BSD Operating >System" has been out for quite some time, and presumably would have disclosed >the same trade secrets (one hopes that they will try to avoid claiming anything >that *they* published in the Bach book, to avoid looking really stupid). McKusick et al stated, just after the book was published, that they were very careful to discuss only the same algorithms discussed in Bach, if those algorithms came from AT&T code. (If the algorithms came from elsewhere, then, of course, there was no problem.) -- Sean Eric Fagan | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah sef@kithrup.COM | complex. But I forgive him." -----------------+ -- Jim Carrey Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.