Origins of OS X

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:06 -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote: Exactly. And, more than likely, the UNIX copyright holder, Lucent, at that time, most likely, would have had some agreement about retaining rights to code produced using their code, which would INCLUDE the Mach 2.5 kernel. If someone else has rights to your kernel, the whole system is legally compromised. Of course, all this is speculation without having the various contracts and cross-licensing agreements they actually put together. I still think, however, that if they used standard sorts of agreements, OS X infringes UNIX. Since Apple has never seemed to be naive in the business sense, perhaps we can assume from this that the licensing agreements involved are NOT standard ones, and that NeXT got rights to the Mach kernel out of it... Peace, Warren E. Wolfe wizard at voyager.net