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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:06:15 am | by SamCook | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:35:21 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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[BSDi] was formed to develop and distribute a commercial version of [BSD]. They rewrote the six remaing unclean[1] files from [4.3BSD_Net/2] and released [BSD/386] in January of 1992 (Just like Bill Jolitz did when releasing [386BSD]).
-Shortly after BSD/386 was released and advertised as [UNIX], Unix System Laboratories sued BSDi. Even if BSDi promptly stoped
calling BSD/386 UNIX (and dropped the phonenumber 1-800-ITS-UNIX) UCL continued to hunt BSDi and now sued claming
BSD/386 contained proprietary code. BSDi clamed
they only used code freely distributeble bu
University of Carlifonia
so UCL resued both BSDi and UC, requesting an injunction on the shipping of Networking Release 2 from the University and on the BSDi products.
+Shortly after BSD/386 was released and advertised as [UNIX], Unix System Laboratories sued BSDi. Even if BSDi promptly stopped
calling BSD/386 UNIX (and dropped the phonenumber 1-800-ITS-UNIX) UCL continued to hunt BSDi and now sued claiming
BSD/386 contained proprietary code. BSDi claimed
they only used code freely distributable by
University of California
so UCL resued both BSDi and UC, requesting an injunction on the shipping of Networking Release 2 from the University and on the BSDi products.
-After many legal moves back and forth [Novell] bought USL and stated that they rather win on the market than in the court, all axes was burried
and the [4.3BSD_Net/2] release was now called [4.4BSD-Lite] and was included into [BSD/OS], [NetBSD] 1.0 and [FreeBSD] 2..
+After many legal moves back and forth [Novell] bought USL and stated that they'd
rather win on the market than in the court, all axes were buried
and the [4.3BSD_Net/2] release was now called [4.4BSD-Lite] and was included into [BSD/OS], [NetBSD] 1.0 and [FreeBSD] 2..
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[1] ''Unclean'' needs more explanation.
