Addamax Explained

Industry:Software
Founded:1986
Founder:Peter A. Alsberg
Hq Location:Champaign, Illinois
Area Served:Illinois
Maryland

Addamax was an American software company that developed Trusted operating systems based on UNIX System V and Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) variants of UNIX.[1] The company was founded in 1986 in Champaign, Illinois by Peter A. Alsberg and had a sales and development office in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Addamax filed a high-profile antitrust lawsuit in 1991 against the Open Software Foundation (OSF), alleging that OSF created a cartel that controlled the UNIX operating system and exerted monopsony price fixing and led to the company going out of business.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Wong. R. M.. [1990] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Computer Security Applications Conference . A comparison of secure UNIX operating systems . 1990. 322–333 . 10.1109/CSAC.1990.143794. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 0-8186-2105-2 . 21640545 .
  2. Web site: Addamax Corp. v Open Software Foundation, Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company . GTW . March 11, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090106122820/http://www.gtwassociates.com/answers/Cases/ADDAMAX.htm . January 6, 2009 .
  3. Web site: U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals: ADDAMAX CORPORATION v OPEN SOFTWARE . September 4, 1998 . FindLaw . March 11, 2012.

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