Addamax

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.^{[citation needed]}

Addamax

Industry	Software
Founded	1986
Founder	Peter A. Alsberg
Headquarters	Champaign, Illinois
Area served	Illinois 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]

References

1. Wong, R. M. (1990). "A comparison of secure UNIX operating systems". [1990] Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. pp. 322–333. doi:10.1109/CSAC.1990.143794. ISBN 0-8186-2105-2. S2CID 21640545.
2. "Addamax Corp. v Open Software Foundation, Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company". GTW. Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
3. "U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals: ADDAMAX CORPORATION v OPEN SOFTWARE". FindLaw. September 4, 1998. Retrieved March 11, 2012.

External links

• Federal Trade Commission paper on Standards which references Addamax