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Addamax
Addamax
was an
American
software company
that developed
Trusted
operating systems
based on
UNIX System V
and
Berkeley Software Distribution
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
lawsuit
in
1991
against the
Open Software Foundation
, 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
.