[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 5:59 AM Rich Salz <rich.salz at gmail.com> wrote:

> The phone number 1-800-ITS-UNIX, didn't help.  But ATT sued the Regents of
> California first because of UCBs net releases. And while there were many of
> the same principles, the two lawsuits were different.
>
> At&t did not have much choice. Unix was protected by trade secret, and
> once it was available, the trade secret was gone. Rick Adams asked a lawyer
> if somebody posted it to Usenet by uploading it from a phone booth. Would
> happen, The lawyers gulped and said it's available now.
>

Trade Secret is one of the big reasons there was a preliminary ruling in
the UCB/ATT lawsuit that 32V had lost its copyright protection. It had been
distributed outside of AT&T to a large degree without the Trade Secret
warning. It's why all the 4BSD releases are publicly available now.

Warner
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