Thank you, Julian - Me bits be scrambled, methinks. Apologies all, correcting it I am now.,
For the record, the agreement was made in 1994. Here is the complete text. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760 -- :D On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote: > Don Wilde wrote: >> What is incorrect, Julian? > .. etc. > > In 1977 I started learning Unix V6 as a Unix newbie. There were > no UCB bits I heard of till csh & job control & vi floated in to > my Uni. a few years on, maybe 1980 +/- a year or 2, I'd guess about > 82. Can't remember when I heard of first complete BSD releases for > PDP/VAX but after the individual bits. > > man 3 ctime > "The functions ctime(), gmtime() and localtime() all take > as an argument a time value representing the time in seconds > since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970; see time(3))." > > 1970 in context quoted below ? No. > >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote: >> >> From: Don Wilde <dwil...@gmail.com> >> > Don Wilde wrote: >> >> http://www.engineeringjobfuture.com/articles/leverage/open-source-software >> > Article contains >> > "The lawsuit was bitterly contested, but finally resolved. >> > Everything developed before 1970 was declared by a judge >> > to be open forever more, and everything developed after >> > that was AT&T's property." >> > >> > False. I stopped reading at that point, after all, the journalist >> > was probably just winging it, after a few emails to people who read >> > the activity at the time (inc many of us doubtless). >> > >> > The people who know Most about the UCB Lite agreement, won't speak much >> > anyway - they signed non disclosures. >> >> -- >> -- Don Wilde >> " Engineering the Future " >> http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com > Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asciiribbon.org > Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/ > -- -- Don Wilde " Engineering the Future " http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"