AT&T sued Berkeley over 186 lines of Unix code, and the delay handed the market to Linux
My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017. In my spare time, you’ll probably find me playing Counter-Strike or VALORANT, and you can reach out to me at [email protected], on Twitter as @AdamConwayIE, on Instagram as AdamConwayIE, or u/AdamConwayIE on Reddit. That was what was considered to be the meaningful code overlap at the center of a lawsuit that dragged on for 22 months and, arguably, decided which free Unix we all ended up running.
- ▪My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional elements of Android apps and smartphones such as performance, and I’ve been working in the tech industry in some way or another since 2017.
- ▪In my spare time, you’ll probably find me playing Counter-Strike or VALORANT, and you can reach out to me at [email protected], on Twitter as @AdamConwayIE, on Instagram as AdamConwayIE, or u/AdamConwayIE on Reddit.
- ▪That was what was considered to be the meaningful code overlap at the center of a lawsuit that dragged on for 22 months and, arguably, decided which free Unix we all ended up running.
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| Publication time | Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:16 GMT |
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