Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:15:22 -0500 From: Kyle Martin <mkm@ieee.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix history Message-ID: <20021016141522.GA65657@marvin.bsdng.org> In-Reply-To: <200210162209.37061.imoore@picknowl.com.au> References: <200210162209.37061.imoore@picknowl.com.au>
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:09:36PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: > From: Ian Moore <imoore@picknowl.com.au> > To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Unix history > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:09:36 +0930 > > Hi, > I was wondering if the commercial Unix variants are really unix 'clones' in > the same way that FBSD & Linux are, or do/did they contain AT&T code? > They often seem to be refered to as Unix, but I assume that (according the > laywers) they are not unix anymore than FBSD is. > If so, it's interesting that AT&T let so many companies copy their software! > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/x45.html might clear things up for you. fwiw, the original AT&T UNIX versions are now open sourced under BSDL thanks to Kirk McKusick et al. -- Kyle Martin mkm@ieee.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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