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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth....
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.142404.23048@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:24:04 GMT
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- In article <LYNCH.92Jul23182147@flubber.cc.utexas.edu>, lynch@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Tom Lynch) writes:
- |
- | I wonder if it is worthwhile to take up a collection to help
- | fight the ATT lawyers. I would hate to see another 'look and feel'
- | type of outcome. Jeeze, these lawyers could convince a computer
- | ignorant jury that anything using a keyboard and CRT is an ATT copy
- | of unix.
-
- Before you start doing this better get the facts. The fact that AT&T
- has not gone after other vendors is interesting, and from what I read in
- other groups the suit is not as broad as people seem to think, but
- rather based on some specific portions of code.
-
- I'm not a big ATT supporter (other than financially), but as long as
- the law protects software from copying I will support the law. Let's get
- someone to list the actual legal details, *then* decide if they need
- help or got caught with a hand in the cookie jar.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-