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- Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!erc
- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
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- References: <QUANSTRO.92Jul21140234@lars.StOlaf.edu>
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.235727.4693@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:57:27 GMT
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- quanstro@lars.StOlaf.edu (goon) writes:
-
- : Imminent death of free-UN*X systems predicted...
- :
- : Wouldn't that be great!
- :
- : Imagine being creative and trying to sythesize all that's been learned
- : from Unix (R) in the last twenty years and actually trying to break
- : out of the YAU (yet another Uni*) mold. . .
-
- And AT&T would probably sue you, claiming that you got the ideas from any
- exposure that you have had to any UNIX code derived (or claim to be derived)
- from AT&T "proprietary" code.
-
- The bottom line is that, if AT&T wins, any piece of code that any programmer
- has written or will write that contains even the slightest hint of containing
- "intellectual property" of AT&T (such as "for(i=0;i<XYZ; i++)") will be
- claimed by AT&T as derivitive of that so-called "intellectual property".
-
- Oops ... I just did it, didn't I? :)
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com <-- preferred email address!
- "In wildness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau
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