Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!pesnta!amd!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: AT&T and Unix Message-ID: <2246@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 02:08:24 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2246 Posted: Sun Jan 20 02:08:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 02:16:05 EST References: <7338@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 21 Summary: In article <7338@brl-tgr.ARPA> Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)writes: >Just because you want something does not mean you have a claim on it. >UNIX is AT&T's property and if they want to ask a million dollars for >access to it that is their right. *sigh* All the more reason to create a public domain style of unix (note the use of the noun) and post it to the net! Even then you wil have to come up with some other name (like GNU, or TM) and have the lawyers on hand to prove that your sources never got near AT&T's version of unix. Well anyway the above is my opinion and does not reflect a stand on the part of my company. chongo /\uu/\ -- Lome tiranar? Ash Urnikx arda! Ash thrakatuluk krimpatul! A chant from the AT&T marketing book