Newbie Experience
Jonathan McKeown
jonathan at hst.org.za
Tue Sep 12 06:17:33 PDT 2006
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 15:05, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> That was my point, that BSD was rewritten from the ground up to avoid AT&T
> patents. So whilst some might consider BSD "real unix", it's really only
> "emulating" V7 with Berkeley extensions.
My understanding was that it was copyright rather than patents - and that the
main reason for the settlement of the case between AT&T and BSD/University of
California was that when they started comparing code, there was actually more
Berkeley code in AT&T Unix than the other way round.
Jonathan
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