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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.131848.4639@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <x> <l6nl2kINNjuk@neuro.usc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:18:48 GMT
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- In article <l6nl2kINNjuk@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- }[The UC Regents 4.3BSD-NET2 software was claimed not to contain any AT&T
-
- }The bottom line is that AT&T claims NET2 is contaminated with intellectual
- }property misappropriated from AT&T -- perhaps not direct copies of source
- }code -- but at least ways of doing things (trade secrets)
-
- } Although USL has not sued the University of California, we expect that
- } USL (or its parent, ATT) will threaten to review or withdraw research
- } grants made to any university or research institution using or
- } distributing software based on NET2 ...
-
- Well, if AT&T wants to play this kind of game, perhaps the appropriate
- tit-for-tat would be for all the universities using these things to
- get together and threaten to withdraw use of AT&T services (surely
- there must be millions of students in University dorms & apartments...)
-
- John
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