From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth.... Date: 22 Jul 1992 21:59:06 GMT
In article <1992Jul21.112705.6276@cs.cornell.edu> murthy@cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) writes:
>Y'know, Doug Comer's XINU, Linus Torvalds' Linux, Tanenbaum's Minix,
>and I'm sure there are others, all stand as good arguments that the technology
>if UNIX isn't just an AT&T invention anymore - the V sytem, Mach,
>ad a zillin other ways of implementing the core of UNIX exist.
>
>I think that even if BSDI fails, even if 386BSD fails, and even
>if the entire Berkeley net2 distrib gets nuked,
>free unix is perhaps 2 years away - in 2 years, linux will be stable.
>In two years, the GNU Hurd will be stable. And AT&T can
>do almost nothing abot that, eh?
I'm somewhat concerned about the possibility that some Linux developers
might be familiar with AT&T code. For legal reasons it might be best
to make sure that all Linux kernel code is developed by people with
no prior experience with AT&T code.
>But you're right - I'm pissed, too. From what I heard of the history,
>BSD started with V6 unix, a developed a _whole_ _lot_
>of what currently constitutes UNIX. To claim that AT&T did ti all is
>goinga bit far.
The unfortunite thing is that money makes right in court. Atleast Linux
is an international effort and may be harder for AT&T to stop.
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