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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:25:19 -0400 (EDT) [hidden email] wrote: > It wasn't until BSD 4.4lite (circa 1994?) were the AT&T encumbrances and > legal status resolved. Lest you forget, GNU - GNU is NOT UNIX was a free > implementation of "POSIX" without AT&T's license and law suits. > While I am a proponent of GPL, I don't agree. The AT&T suit and licenses, > more than anything else, prevented development of BSD over Linux. Had AT&T > let BSD be unencumbered earlier, there would be no Linux. The AT&T suit against the University of California was not a copyright suit per se. Had AT&T been successful, according to Lar Kauffman, that would have shut down Linux also. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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