Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:55:26 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: howardjp@well.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <200101180855.AAA00887@spammie.svbug.com> In-Reply-To: <200101180728.AAA00660@usr08.primenet.com>
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On 18 Jan, Terry Lambert wrote: > More corrections... > >> AT&T sold Unix to Novell for $1 Billion dollars in the middle >> of this and in reallity it was Novell that settled. BTW, this >> $1B almost bankrupted(sp?) Novell. > > Novell bought USL for $80M, which is only 8% of the figure > you quote. This is the same price they charged Sun to get > out of royalty payments, and the later sale of USL to SCO was > nothing but gravy for them: very good ROI, in fact. > The figure I'm quoting was one I was given. If it is incorrect, then I need to get the correcting reference. Both John and I are working on a History of BSD. As such, the correct nature of facts becomes us. If you can please Terry, and reference information, rather that word of mouth, would assist us greatly. > The $1B purchase made at around the same time was the purchase > of Word Perfect. Along with AppWare (another company started Terry, I've forwarded this information to John as a possible error in our notes. Best Regards, Jessem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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