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- From: ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <4825@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 22:50:26 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> <1992Jul23.204845.28978@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- In article <1992Jul23.204845.28978@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl
- Denninger) writes (abbreviated):
- >I think we should organize a boycott of AT&T products and services, and
- >tell 'em why. This means that MCI gets my long-distance service.
-
- I (as a private individual) am already boycotting AT&T (due to XWindow
- backing store). My long-distance carrier is MCI. The phone at home is
- made by Panasonic. I have no plans to purchase phone equipment. I
- could try to steer purchases at work away from AT&T, but that would be
- a horrible crime of tampering with Federal Government Purchasing.
- Note: our group does purchase about $3K of phone service from AT&T per
- month, and we are about to add a satellite international link which
- will cost close to $10K/month, also from AT&T; in both cases there is
- no competition to AT&T, so there are no other options. I could start
- boycotting all Un*x systems (since they all eventually go back to an
- AT&T license), but that would be a very unreasonable hardship (I would
- get no work done any longer).
-
- So the question is: What can I do (as a private individual) to help
- BSDI, and intellectual freedom? Looks pretty bleak, doesn't it. The
- only option is to directly donate money to BSDI, or (equivalent) buy a
- copy of BSDI's Unix which I don't need right now.
-
- This is not a rhetorical question (if there is something one can do to
- help, I'd like to know), although it really looks like there is
- nothing one can do. Short of tossing Molotov-cocktails into the
- nearest AT&T facility (which again is not suggested and a crime, for
- good reason).
-
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- Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center RALPH@SLACVM.BITNET
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- My opinion. This is not SLAC, Stanford U, or the US DoE speaking. Just me.
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