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- From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com>
- Summary: What can we do most effectively?
- Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
- References: <1821@adagio.UUCP> <14kcimINNcr5@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:32:48 GMT
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- paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen) writes:
-
- >I think someone should give BSDI a medal for doing their work...
-
- Easy, there. BSDI is doing what they must do to survive as a business.
- They *have* done their legal homework, and let's hope it's good enough.
- But let's save the celebration for when the battle's over and they've won.
-
- >...More to
- >the point, we should start contributing to the "BSDI legal defense fund."
-
- I don't think that's a very effective way to go. If you want to contribute
- to BSDI's efforts, buy their product. I'm not saying that because the
- legal issues are unimportant, but because a "legal defense fund" isn't the
- way for a small group of people to have a significant effect against a
- large corporation with lots of lawyers. If you're really rich, or in some
- position to make a substantial contribution to the legal battle, fine...
- but that's doesn't apply to most of the readers of this group. USL can
- just throw money at the battle; it's hard for us to do that effectively.
- Instead, think of ways we can use the abilities or the connections we do
- have.
-
- Most of us are just ordinary individuals with ordinary amounts of money.
- I think a better way to help is to make the BSD-based software widely
- available. Encourage the use of *any* systems based on Net 2 (yes, gasp!,
- I'm advocating both BSDI and 386BSD in the same breath), get them out all
- over the world. USL hasn't moved against Net 2, which sure looks like
- tacit approval to me...so let's make sure it's everywhere. My own opinion
- is that the genie is already out of the bottle anyway, and not likely to
- be put back in, but we might as well try to be as thorough as we can.
- --
- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado
- ...A clear analysis of any situation is often mistaken for pessimism.
-