at&t did at one time try to paint BSD as illegal. They also sued which Microsoft has not done yet.

That was a funny one. In the end AT&T was suing the BSD folks for using the technology the BSD folks developed and that AT&T was using without proper acknowledgement. I can only imagine what happened at the board meeting when this was disclosed.

But I get your point. Since then, AT&T got a lot more civilized.

Microsoft never was.

> GNU is pretty much a greatly enhanced superset of AT&T UNIX.

I know many people that would question your claim that GNU 'enhanced' the work of Bell Labs, more like the opposite, but then they were certainly not alone in that.