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Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!alex
From: alex@mks.UUCP (Alex White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. CSS (PC/Tools)
Summary: Status of MKS Products
Keywords: AT&T, lawsuit, CSS, PC/Tools, PC/VI
Message-ID: <482@mks.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 18:12:15 GMT
References: <403@mancol.UUCP> <102@dcs.UUCP> <395@hotlr.ATT> <109@dcs.UUCP> <166@skep2.ATT.COM>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <166@skep2.ATT.COM>, wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.<ho95c>) writes:
> b) MKS has ported some UNIX tools and reimplemented others and is presumably
> 	following the rules for the products they use,

Since several people on the net have commented about and questioned the
origin of our products, I feel we should reply.  I am a director
of MKS, so you can take this as official and stop wondering.

The MKS Toolkit, MKS Awk and MKS Vi contain NO, and I repeat NO, part
whatsoever of UNIX.  They are all complete re-implementations.

We have licensed MKS RCS from Walter Tichey and paid a licensing fee.
The parts of RCS that normally rely on UNIX code [diff, diff3] are our own
code.

We are distributers for SoftQuad Publishing Software and have ported it to DOS.
Softquad Publishing Software is the official new release of AT&T Documenters
Workbench, and hence does indeed contain licensed software from AT&T.
The DOS Release of SQPS contains several utility programs which come from the
MKS Toolkit.