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   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:27:52 -0500, DFS wrote:   
   >   
   >> ... wholesale theft of ideas from Unix ...   
   >   
   > Terrible. Why didn’t AT&T get them arrested?   
      
   Because the only "theft" was the APIs. Otherwise GNU is a complete   
   rewrite.   
      
   Then later, 386BSD.   
      
   > And Microsoft simply stole the BSD network stack, too.   
      
   Microsoft, through David Cutler, stole VMS from Digital Equipment   
   Corporation, and got sued for it.   
      
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