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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!geoff From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <BsHpDC.J7z@world.std.com> Organization: Software Tool & Die Netnews Research Center References: <45961@shamash.cdc.com> <25138@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> <7045@skye.ed.ac.uk> <KANDALL.92Aug4161214@globalize.nsg.sgi.com> <1992Aug4.162951.25999@pony.Ingres.COM> <o5n24ss@twilight.wpd.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 02:53:35 GMT Lines: 12 Don Coolidge: >Right. Like Multics, the MIT ancestor of Unix. If USL/AT&T are >claiming intellectual property rights, how do they deal with Multics? Quite simply: Multics was a joint effort of General Electric (later Honeywell), M.I.T. and (AT&T) Bell Labs. M.I.T. may have been the last party to abandon the sinking ship, but that doesn't mean that they developed Multics by themselves. -- Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff ``Leave the evil grasping to us.'' - A. L. Arms, UNIX licensing, WECo.