Addamax was an American
software company that developed
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s based on
UNIX System V and
Berkeley Software Distribution
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(BSD) variants of
UNIX. The company was founded in 1986 in
Champaign, Illinois by Dr. Peter A. Alsberg and had a sales and development office in
Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Addamax filed a high-profile
antitrust
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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.
References
External links
Federal Trade Commission paper on Standards which references Addamax
Software companies based in Illinois
1986 establishments in Illinois
Companies established in 1986
Defunct software companies of the United States
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