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In article <1991Feb18.210120.8820@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>
>Could AT&T sue on the
>basis that GNU copied the "look & feel" of AT&T UNIX thus preventing
>it from being distributed?
>

They've already shot themselves in the foot as far as that's concerned.
I don't have any specific references available, but a couple years ago,
AT&T defended itself against a claim that a government contract that
System V won was invalid because the contract specified that the system
to be delivered had to conform to SVID.  Their argument: anyone can
freely make a SVID-compatible system; it just so happened that System V
was the only such system at the time.  (And, of course, there's POSIX
now....)

-- PTD --

(If that sort of thing *were* legal, it's interesting to speculate how
a Digital Research claim that MS-DOS violates CP/M's "look and feel"
would hold up -- or a DEC suit against DR for ripping off RSTS/E....)
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