Re: [SLUG] copyright breaches - multi user platforms

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Nicholas Tomlin">

> Is anybody going Microsoft for copying the Unix multi user environment
> with their NT, 2000 server and XP platforms?? I know Unix was first at it,
> 20 plus years ago when I was at Uni...

The NT platforms were largely based on VMS design (not code), and are wildly
dissimilar to *nix (though there is a POSIX compatibility layer - which is
not really all that compatible - and so on). Drawing any &copy; conclusions
from the fact that two systems provide a similar feature is broken at best
(and surprisingly similar to what SCO were alleging with regards to IBM's
contributions to Linux). There are lots of multi-user operating systems
around, many of them vastly different to NT and *nix platforms...

Trying to follow the MS conspiracy lines too far will drive you (and every
one who has to listen) up the wall. :-)

- Jeff

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