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- From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.novell,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.161548.19905@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:15:48 GMT
- References: <62406@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM> <Bzo5zH.B6y@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
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- watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
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- >A bigger question than these anomalies though is what are the
- >implications for Unix? How important is USL?
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- USL is EXTREMELY important in the UNIX world as it is the only
- active major development center for UNIX source code. Berkeley
- (UC Berkeley) was also active in this field, but they are in the
- process of shutting down. USL supplies the source code base for
- most current versions of *IX. Those that were based on the Berkeley
- code (which included a lot of USL code, BTW) are converting over to
- the USL code, for the most part. Most obvious in that category is
- Sun. CU (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) would like to set up an alternative
- code development center, a la Berkeley's BSD, but they are still
- looking for $$$.
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- I have one major request for Novell if this deal is finalized; drop
- the lawsuits against Berkeley and BSDI!
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- >-Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
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