Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:01:30 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: mikel king <mikel.king@ocsny.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... Message-ID: <20030124030130.GB61607@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3E309AA0.3020705@ocsny.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote: > McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile > attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether > Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix > intellectual property it owned. This was already resolved in the early 90s when USL sued BSDi over encumbered UNIX code in BSD, and the case was settled. You can read more about this in the archives. Furthermore, last year someone from SCO explicitly gave FreeBSD permission to publish the older code anyway. I don't expect anything to come of this. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+MKyKWry0BWjoQKURAtZFAJ9nzTVyXYrj7yKXkKqqu19eYNGnAwCfV/Ct HvaNtG9cV+n3acPBHNzFbwM= =hfaK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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