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- From: fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu
- Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth....
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:18:46 GMT
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- lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
-
- >I'm somewhat concerned about the possibility that some Linux developers
- >might be familiar with AT&T code. For legal reasons it might be best
- >to make sure that all Linux kernel code is developed by people with
- >no prior experience with AT&T code.
-
- I suspect the court will see the complete invalidity of AT&T's side
- of this affair. If you can sue someone and win on the ground that
- they *may have* *seen* something you were doing, then our legal
- system is completely broken.
-
- The burden of proof rests with the accuser. It's going to be hard for
- AT&T to prove that anyone has definitively used their code, especially
- since the ideas behind the code have been freeware taught by professors
- at colleges around the globe for over ten years now. In the case of
- Linux, which was written from scratch, they would find the task utterly
- impossible.
-
- >The unfortunite thing is that money makes right in court. Atleast Linux
- >is an international effort and may be harder for AT&T to stop.
-
- That's a pretty cynical view. I hope you're wrong -- I suspect that
- law makes right in court {except, perhaps, at the circus that is the
- Bush supreme court}.
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