Re: Ada OOP syntax

[anon@anon.org (anon)]

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Novell owning the "copyright" does not mean they own UNIX. Just like 
GNU owning the "copyright" to GNAT does not mean they own GNAT Ada.

Actually the company I am talking about owns at least of 5%, purchased 
back in 1994/5 and anyone that owns even one party can say they own 
it. It just that Novell owns by a Judges decision the controlling interest. 
But the purchase limits some of there rights on both sides.

And the name "UNIX" is own by someone else. Even Novell admit that.

Besides the owners of the "Copyright" there is:

"Intellectual Property" of UNIX which a list of companies such as the 
old AT&T labs, SUN, SGI, IBM, NOVELL, etc own a part. And the company 
that I call the "current owners", has some "Intellectual Property" in UNIX 
as well. 

Then there are the "Patents" and that's a larger group of companies which 
include the list of "Intellectual Property" and including companies like 
Microsoft with its additions to XENIX, Exxon who owns Zilog and their 
version on UNIX. etc.

And there are others topic as well that can calm ownership to some or 
all of of any routine or language. Including the group that wrote the 
language use in creating the software.

So dude, the best way is not to argue about it.



In <1213598007.755542@xnews001>, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> writes:
>anon wrote:
>
>> From the licensing agreement with Novell that Judge Kimball did not over
>> turn, what I called current owner of UNIX are the ones that can sell UNIX
>> to a third party, such as SUN and Microsoft.
>
>Being allowed to sell something doesn't mean they own it. Novell owns Unix,
>nobody else does.
>
>> Also at the movement Novell is playing with a couple of versions of SuSE
>> Linux.
>
>???
>
>Bye...
>
>        Dirk
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