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stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) wrote:


>WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!  BSD used AT&Ts code to create a "derivative work".

Under license. And royalties.

>SURE, AT&T COULD have sued BSD, 

Why, did Berkeley even violate their license agreement.

>and others, but THEN their code wouldn't be
>open, and would become WORTHLESS!!!!!!  

Yeah, right. A friend of mine works at a company that pays six figures
a year to IBM for software lease. Your definition of worthless is
different from mine.

>What if IBM sued all THEIR competitors?

A better idea than suing one's licensees.

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

The guy that wrote CP/M (Kendall, something like that) said that he
should have sued. Whether he had a case or not, I have no idea.
Remember, it's only the copyrighted code that counts for derivitive
work, not the "look and feel". For my opinion only, nearly all "look
and feel" ideas should not be ownable.