From: "Paul Ranson" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3eef3f27{at}w3.nls.net...
> They are claiming other people's work. It's like saying trumpet tcp was
> built on top of windows 3.x ergo MS owns it.

If you read the article you've referenced you'll see,

"Everybody was happy to sign tough contracts with these benevolent
scientists—licenses which deeded all derivative works back to AT&T,
licenses that covered all "methods" and "concepts" of
operating systems."

So they may be claiming 'other peoples work', but those other people
apparently signed contracts that mean they don't own their own work.

Microsoft is much more benign in its licensing....

Paul

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