From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 18 2: 3:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74C437B407 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 02:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0026.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.26] helo=mindspring.com) by goose.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17907t-0000Ea-00; Sat, 18 May 2002 02:03:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE618D0.77679884@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 02:03:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MacOS X , FreeBSD, UNIX and kleenex References: <86D234B0-68FE-11D6-93D6-0003931BED80@shire.net> <3CE40852.EB497039@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rich Morin wrote: > At 12:28 PM -0700 5/16/02, Terry Lambert wrote: > >Apple has such a source license, and so they are grandfathered, > >as long as they include some of the code on the machine (A/UX). > > Maybe so, but if they use that rationale, aren't they opening > themselves up to paying a per-user fee for the use of the code > in a binary distribution? No. They bought it out before the royalties went up. A/UX is actually based on SVR3, nor SVR4. There are other issues which would end up making it a difficult case, and a P.R. nightmare for whoever bought the suit. Have you been following the "Windows/Lindows" case? It seems that it now hinges on whether or not "Windows" is even defensible out of common use (USPTO denied it in 1991, after 7 years). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message