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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC UNIces
Message-ID: <6725@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:33:53 GMT
References: <1989Dec18.180148.2051@ico.isc.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <1989Dec18.180148.2051@ico.isc.com>, by rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn):
> In article <841@crash.cts.com>, jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>> Why SCO and various other makers of PC-Unix license from AT&T instead of BSD
>> is a mystery to me, but that's the way it works in the PC domain.
> 
> ... Because they want to sell their systems ... to businesses ... 
> ... businessman:  Do you buy the system based on a Real Product ...
> ... or do you buy one based on some stuff out of a university ...

I think it's simpler than that.  UNIX(R) is a registered trademark of
AT&T.  Berkeley doesn't own any kind of UNIX OS.  They improved it, but
AT&T owns it.  A user has to get the license from the owner, no matter
which version they use.  XePix (formerly Pixel) sold systems based on
BSD, but (I assume) they had to pay AT&T for the license.

Don't blame me, I only work here, and not for much longer, thank you.

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