Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:02:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Stacy Olivas <olivas@digiflux.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... (was on freebsd-questions, moved to freebsd-chat) Message-ID: <3E31B80F.E08E135@mindspring.com> References: <00ee01c2c3d5$1e1a84e0$0502000a@sentinel>
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Stacy Olivas wrote: > > > Here's a thought what about the intellectual property that > > > the've enjoy at the expense of all of the BSD's? What would > > > happen if the BSD world recinded the rights to TCP/IP and > > > demanded compensation for it's use from say everyone? > > > > Mike, the rights to IP itself are with DARPA, so we couldn't > > recind it, but, UCB designed the origional UNIX IP stack (which > > could be installed as a supliment to AT&T UNIX as part of the > > patch set then known as BSD). If we recinded that, even MS > > would have to pay up for including the code in Windows 2000. > > Microsoft pay for infringing on someone else's IP rights? Microsoft is not "infringing". The standard license grant is "in perpetuity". Even if it wasn't, Microsoft paid for the port of the BSD code by BSD people (rumor has it that they paid $3M for it). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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