[Gllug] Take a look at my photos on Facebook

Christopher Hunter cehunter at gb-x.org
Thu Nov 5 17:26:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 17:13 +0000, Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 05:08:04PM +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> > Nonsense.  It was (about) 10 years ago that those bastards killed BeOS
> > (which was a serious contender at the time).  It was 15 years ago that
> > the bastards screwed over Stacker.  Almost 20 years ago they stole the
> > IP stack from BSD...
> 
> Stole like the BSD licence permits?

No - they used it without credit.  It was only later when the "Regents
of Berkeley University" sued them that they started including BSD in
their credit files with each OS.The fact that they stole a broken,
development version has always struck me as very funny!

C.


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