RE: [cobalt-users] worm attack

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I would just like to point out one little fact.  UNIX as originally
>developed by Bell Labs is not and has never been open source.  If you intend
>to sell a UNIX derivative based on System V code you owe Royalties to those
>whom currently own the code.


I don't think anyone said that SVR* was open source, I said that unix was open source - this is perhaps a little too broad - what I should have said, was that there was an open source version of unix available to them to copy ideas and code from.

I fully understand the implications of copying Bell/AT&T (now) code - they get upset and sue you.


>As to all those windows users that you may think are out there to make your
>life difficult.. Remember, that without them, you, me, and just about
>everyone else on this list would be without a job.


What rot - I might not be in *this* job (making a mighty leap and connecting the internet and windoze inexorably), but to without "a" job - nope - I was pure unix, before that many other forms of computing, none of them windoze.

I didn't need a DOS or windoze machine to get to where I was before this job.  Well... not strictly true - I used them for telnet, but any telnet client would have done, and the platform would not have mattered.



>
>On 9/20/2001 Greg Hewitt-Long Wrote:
>Now - consider that unix is open source, they had a free model to follow,
>>and the latter part of the 20th century is the era massive movement,
>>innovation and considerable movement in the computer arean (much more so
>>than the laid back 70s) - and I still say they're neaderthals for not
>>"getting" the bigger picture as to what was required of a server operating
>>system.
>
>-Troy
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