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Addamax was an American software company that developed
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s based on UNIX System V and
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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
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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.


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Federal Trade Commission paper on Standards which references Addamax
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