[Tfug] Microsoft reportedly wants open source software users to pa y rolyalties

Jude Nelson judecn at gmail.com
Thu May 17 15:10:59 MST 2007


M$ took their networking code from BSD, not VMS, as I recall.

On 5/17/07, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/17/07, Stephen Hooper <stephen.hooper at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > And also, I would think Microsoft is probably Ok, in terms of any
> > "heritage", as they did (at least at one time) have rights to UNIX
> > from AT&T (Xenix).  That pre-dated CP/M...
> >
>
> The rights pre-dated CP/M; *not* XENIX pre-dating CP/M ... sorry.
>
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