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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
