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From: rjd@tiger.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Who owns Unix(tm)? (was: Re: Mach,
Message-ID: <142700019@tiger.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 21:58:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 21:58:00 1987
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> 	AT&T owns UNIX because they have enough laywers that if you lined
> them all up end-to-end you could walk across their backs all the way to
> Mars. Supposing that you tried to institute legal proceedings: they could
> keep it tied up in court until hell freezes over, or the last IBM PC is
> melted down for scrap copper. Not only would they do that, but the cost of
> the lawyers would be passed on to the phone users of America.

  No, AT&T owns it because AT&T wrote it.  Or to be more precise: employess
of AT&T wrote it with AT&T facilities while under agreement with AT&T that
the work they perform is owned by AT&T.

So there.

Randy