[Talk] SCO news - targetting BSD & 'major user', more money to law firm

Greg Rose ggr at qualcomm.com
Sat Nov 22 14:53:27 EST 2003


At 01:46 PM 11/22/2003, david.newall at auug.org.au wrote:
> > http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3110981
>
>It's a shame when journalists don't properly research their material.
>BSD is more likely to mean "Berkeley Software Distribution," than it
>is to mean "Berkeley Software Design."  The latter refer to BSDi, which
>was bought out by WinDriver, who have recently switched to Linux.

And posters to lists like this. The lawsuit in question was in fact between 
AT&T and BSDi, with UCB choosing to come in. The settlement, as a 
side-effect, also freed up the BSDs.

Greg.
Greg.

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