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  1. From: uhclem@trsvax.tandy.com
  2. Date: 22 Jul 92 09:42 CDT
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  4. Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
  5. Message-ID: <1390200001@trsvax>
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  8. Nf-From: trsvax.tandy.com!uhclem    Jul 22 09:42:00 1992
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  14. [0]According to today's _ComputerWorld_ (July 20, 1992, page 16) AT&T's
  15. [0]USL has sued Berkeley Software Design, Inc. in U.S. District Court in
  16. [0]NJ.  Copyright and patent infringement are apparently *not* involved,
  17. [0]the grounds being specified as "trademark infringement, false
  18. [0]advertizing and unfair competition."
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  20. The story I got (from a well-placed source) was that the false
  21. advertising claim was that BSDI purchasers don't  need an
  22. AT&T *NIX license and AT&T feels they do.   Got that?
  23.  
  24. "So, none of our code is in your product, eh?  Well, we demand you buy a
  25.  license anyway.  That'll be $150,000 per copy, please."
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  28. My opinion, and not that of my employer who would rather everyone go out
  29. and buy several DOS systems with Windows (sell more RAM that way) and
  30. throw out all those nasty *NIX systems that several people can use.
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  33. Frank Durda IV <uhclem@trsvax.tandy.com>    |"More Hardware!  Less Software!"
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