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In article <4gjm7j$3rf@news-f.iadfw.net> clyde@iadfw.net (Clyde Coffey) writes:
>risner@heathers.stdio.com (James Risner) wrote:
>
>>Boy your green.
>>Linux can use any BSD code he wished.  The BSD license is like the GPL license.
>>just two difference:
>>1) In BSD, you DON'T have to release source code.
>>2) In BSD, you DO have to say it contains BSD code.
>> 
>>Linus could have used all the BSD code he wished.
>>He did not, because in his words "it is easier to re-implement than
>>to understand someone else code."
>
>Are you talking about the actual Berkeley Standard Distribution or
>FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc? Big difference. You can use all the BSD code you
>want, as long as you pay big royalties to BSD and whoever now owns
>Unix. If Torvalds so much as studied this code and wrote something
>similar, he would be close enough to creating a "derivitive work" to
>get his ass sued off.


WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!  BSD used AT&Ts code to create a "derivative work".
SURE, AT&T COULD have sued BSD, and others, but THEN their code wouldn't be
open, and would become WORTHLESS!!!!!!  What if IBM sued all THEIR competitors?
EVERY product would have become worthless.  BESIDES, many patented products
got SEVERE competition BECAUSE they were protected!

Steve

BTW MS/DOS is built on a CPM/86 knockoff which was DERIVED from CP/M!