Unless of course it's April 1st today and you meant to humor the list once in a while :)
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Tito Mari Francis Escaño < [email protected]> wrote: > I think this will be debateable since according to BSD history, UC Berkeley > added innovations that became common (should we say standard?) features of > Unix like service daemons, TCP/IP networking stack, and multi-(user, > tasking, processing, programming) as per DARPA grant. > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Another important point is that a lot of innovation on UNIX came out >> of Bell Labs -- but Bell Labs "shared" their innovations not out of >> altruism, but because the anti-trust settlement between AT&T and the >> US government forbade AT&T from selling any computers or software, so >> Bell Labs "gave away" the source code. >> >> AT&T was an even larger monopoly than Microsoft today (or Google) but >> it was this entrenched monopoly which funded the R&D which eventually >> led to where we are today. >> >> >> >> -- >> Orlando Andico >> +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > > > > -- > Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño > Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent > -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent
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