FreeBSD - Linux / Unix ?

[Dan MacMillan]

> From: Jerry McAllister
> Sent: March 25, 2004 07:17
>
> Much of what the responder said here is right, but I think there might be
> just one little point to pick.
>
> > ... lots excised ...
>
> > > > B.      Unix
> > Depends on what you mean by Unix. There is code in it that
> > derives from the original AT&T UNIX.
>
> It is this.  Although the idea of Unix may have started in Bell Labs,
> I thought the big lawsuits 10+ years ago and lots of work by early
> developers settled that no code in the current BSD line can be said
> to derive from Bell Labs code.

Actually, that is not true.  The only point the lawsuits settled
definitively is that BSD did not infringe on USL's copyrights.  In fact it
was basically stipulated that some parts of NET/2 / BSDi =were= derived
(even copied) from the USL code, but that it didn't matter because the
copyrights being claimed had been abandoned or were invalid for one reason
or another.

-Dan