[net.emacs] Looking at people's code.

peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) (08/01/85)

What about Phoenix, the Rice UNIX-under-VMS system. Wollongong sucessfully sued
on the grounds that Rice had a Eunice license when they developed Phoenix. This
strikes me is vaguely bogus, but I was careful to refuse a copy of TERMLIB when
I was writing my own version for the same reason.

sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber) (08/03/85)

In article <210@kitty.UUCP> peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) writes:
>What about Phoenix, the Rice UNIX-under-VMS system. Wollongong sucessfully sued
>on the grounds that Rice had a Eunice license when they developed Phoenix. This
>strikes me is vaguely bogus, but I was careful to refuse a copy of TERMLIB when
>I was writing my own version for the same reason.


WRONG WRONG WRONG

Wollongong did not successfully sue Rice. It was settled out-of-court.
Wollongong got more or less what they wanted, but it NEVER went to court.

NOTE: This is not an official opinion of Rice University or Baylor
College of Medicine, but it is fact.
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peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) (08/05/85)

> Wollongong did not successfully sue Rice. It was settled out-of-court.
> Wollongong got more or less what they wanted, but it NEVER went to court.

OK. OK. I dorfed it up. I still think the whole Phoenix/Eunice mess is bogus.