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