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- From: alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alan Coopersmith)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon, others coming soon...
- Message-ID: <14i6frINN2ck@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 23:26:51 GMT
- References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu>
- Organization: U.C. Bezerkeley Overloaded Computing Facility
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- In article <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- )On a final note, BSDI's own press release states that:
- )
- ) 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 ...
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- Hopefully, if this happens, the Universities are willing to play hardball as
- well, and move all their long distance services to other carriers and stop
- buying all AT&T products (telephones & computers alike...)
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- [If AT&T is that worried about everyone having a license, why haven't they
- gotten uunet/dec/etc. to pull the Net-2 sources out of the public archives?]
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