[TUHS] SCO vs. IBM: NOVELL steps up to the plate

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>From: Aharon Robbins <arnold at skeeve.com>
>To: tuhs at tuhs.org
>Subject: Re: [TUHS] SCO vs. IBM: NOVELL steps up to the plate
>Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:56:08 +0300
>
>What I find fascinating (and that no-one has mentioned yet) is how anyone
>can claim that Unix internals are still trade secret, especially given
>this book:
>
>	The Design of the UNIX Operating System,
>	Maurice J. Bach.
>	Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1986.
>	ISBN 0-13-201799-7.
>
>There's also these:
>
>	The Magic Garden Explained:
>	The Internals of Unix System V Release 4:
>	An Open Systems Design,
>	Berny Goodheart, James Cox, John R. Mashey.
>	Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1994.
>	ISBN 0-13-098138-9.
>
>	Unix Internals: The New Frontiers,
>	Uresh Vahalia.
>	Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA, 1996.
>	ISBN 0-13-101908-2.
>	According to Amazon.com, a new edition is scheduled for 2005.
>
>The Bach book, in particular, is a rather large smoking gun that AT&T
>didn't care a huge amount about trade secrets.  The book is still in
>print (and selling for a whopping $69.97 on Amazon.com!).  It doesn't
>contain actual source code, but let's get real here...
>
>Arnold
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