19 Oct
2018
19 Oct
'18
11:25 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:57 AM <jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
I know after the whole SCO personal licenses and then
Ransom Loves’s
making 32v and all prior open was great but apparently it wasn’t his to
give away. Or am I wrong?
Sigh ... Yes... Where did you hear this? On second thought, I really I
don't want to know... Whomever is spreading that information is tad
uninformed and really does understand what happened.
Simply put, the AT&T case made it clear, *the technology has been published*.
The issue is closed. It is 'open' - free - 'libre.' It's all
public
information and has been and was required to be by the US Courts in the
AT&T / USL vs UCB/BSDi law suit. It's really not an interesting argument
at this point. The US courts made is clear, * AT&T was required to make the
barn doors open, and horses left the barn.*
This is why >>Novell<< released the implementation (i.e. source code) and*
it was Novell's to make available - which again the US courts have already
determined. *
All of this has been discussed here and elsewhere and really does not need
to be rehashed (please). * In fact, *I wrote and published a very long
paper about how UNIX can to be. The presentation of same can be seen and
the paper downloaded:
http://technique-societe.cnam.fr/colloque-international-unix-en-france-et-a…
Clem
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