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"I hope Google should 'behave' more like AT&T built unix and C." Well you have to remember more of the Unix Wars of the 80s. AT&T tried to sue everybody who h
by jmount 16y ago
"I hope Google should 'behave' more like AT&T built unix and C." Well you have to remember more of the Unix Wars of the 80s. AT&T tried to sue everybody who had any dialect of Unix. The main thing that stopped that was showing that many of the code segments shared by BSD Unix and SysV Unix were due to AT&T lifting code from BSD (not the other way around). Plus in that era people started removing the C compiler from Unix distros as it was "too valuable" to give away. A very different world than now.
- hga 16y ago"AT&T tried to sue everybody who had any dialect of Unix." Perhaps. They started with BSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi), suing the initial commercial BSD vendor and the university proper. They utterly lost when it was shown they hadn't followed the BSD license with BSD code they'd incorpated in their own versions, that had been licensed to others and that were used for their own operations (they were thrown a face saving bone in the settlement that required a relative handful of BSD files to be re-written, but were otherwise skunked). I'm not sure why they stopped doing this, although it's telling that Novell bought UNIX(TM) in the middle of the year in which AT&T settled with Berkeley.