From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 21 19:59:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA11269 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p2-11.intele.net [206.29.206.126]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA11262 Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:59:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01323; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:00:22 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:00:22 -0700 Message-Id: <199603220400.VAA01323@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: Jeffrey Hsu CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be used in a commercial way? In-Reply-To: <199603200656.WAA08220@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199603200656.WAA08220@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeffrey Hsu writes: > I thought the crucial difference was that Sun only got the rights to the > current version of SVR4, whereas SCO got the rights to the current and > future versions of SVR4, no? Sun got the right to the then-current SVR4, and "derived works" -- their own future versions. SCO got the same thing, plus the people and facilities that used to be USL. Sun probably didn't want that. ;^) X/Open got the right to define what "UNIX" is, and who can use the trademark. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett