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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.163407.10823@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD
- Organization: Mentor Graphics, Silicon Design Division
- References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> <3674@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:34:07 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In <3674@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
-
- >All in all, this filing by a corporate giant with virtually unlimited funds
- >for legal expenses would seem to spell the doom of 'free' UNIX projects as
- >they are presently conceived. There is simply too much risk someone with a
- >prior exposure to AT&T source codes could manage to contaminate the product.
-
- Maybe I've been reading a New York Times from an alternate universe,
- but I thought AT&T is a bit tight on money these days and doesn't have
- "virtually unlimited funds for legal expenses"... or do you just mean
- "more funds than BSDI"
-
- USL has been publishing press releases saying that Windows NT is the
- real enemy, and they don't care who's Unix you buy, just as long as you
- buy something that looks like Unix... because they'd rather see people
- switch to Unix than Windows NT.
-
- In article <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >Sigh is right. It is virtually impossible to not have had access to a Unix
- >system in one's career of computer science. If that is allowed to stand,
- >AT&T will win every time. Yuch.
-
- Gee, I went to a tiny liberal arts school that doesn't get all those
- favors and perks from Corporate America. I never have seen a source
- license. I guess that just bumped up the value of my degree? HHOS.
-
- Tom
- HHOS -- "Ha, ha, only serious".
- --
- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play)
- Maybe Bush will follow Perot's lead.
-