On 04/04/17 12:53, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 11:45:25 +0100
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> Linux, designed to break patents on Unix, is massively successful but
>> its now becoming another standards war itself.
>
>  AFAIK there were no patents on Unix, there were however copyright
> restrictions on the AT&T source code which Linux avoided by the simple (in
> principle) expedient of being a clean rewrite while BSD got embroiled in a
> legal argument over which bits they could distribute and which bits they
> could not.
>
I stand corrected. Patents and copyrights are a bit of a legal nicety to me.


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