Re: UNIX in the Public Domain

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From: Timothy Murphy
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 1990 22:20

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In <10577@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:

>According to Clifford Stoll's _The Cuckoo's Egg_, the KGB has obtained
>a copy of the Unix source code via those german hackers.

This seems nonsense.
Surely you don't have to be a great hacker to steal Unix sources --
you only have to be at a university.

Anyway, I remember hearing Ken Thompson at a Unix conference
(or it might just possibly have been Denis Ritchie)
almost 10 years ago
saying that he'd been in Moscow,
and had used a computer there
which seemed to be running standard Unix.

-- 

Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie

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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
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Subject: Re: UNIX in the Public Domain
Keywords: Copyright, Free Software, Communism
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Date: 13 Oct 90 22:20:50 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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