From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 15 19: 9:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2023237B558 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:09:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA63286; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:38:07 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:38:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Travis Cole Cc: David Scheidt , James Howard , The Clark Family , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD wars again (was: Pet Theory for World Domination) Message-ID: <20000716113807.D57098@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200007140329.XAA28932@rac10.wam.umd.edu> <20000714074904.A30544@nihilist.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000714074904.A30544@nihilist.org> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 14 July 2000 at 7:49:04 -0700, Travis Cole wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 11:56:57PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, James Howard wrote: >> >> :In message , The >> :Clark Family writes: >> :> >> :> SCO bought UNIXWare from Novell didn't they? >> : >> :Yes. Also, wasn't this purchase made *during* the court proceedings? >> >> I think that was AT&T selling UNIX to Novell. My history is sort of fuzzy, >> though. > > Yeah, thats right. AT&T were they guys going after BSD, and when they > sold UNIX to Novell that pretty much put a stop to it. Well, as Dennis Ritchie pointed out, it was USL, not AT&T, who instigated the law suit. They were a daughter of AT&T, but AT&T corporate management was not involved. > But by that time BSD was mostly UNIX code free anyway. It was before the lawsuit as well. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message