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- From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 09:50:18 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul20.211811.3152@algor2.algorists.com> <ROB.92Jul20165225@hanalei.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul21.030532.10307@kithrup.COM> <1821@adagio.UUCP>
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- In article <1821@adagio.UUCP>, grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes:
- > ... an AT&T
- > spokesman is quoted as saying that anybody who has had access to AT&T
- > UNIX (tm) sources cannot develop operating system software which is
- > not derived from it. ...
-
- Hah !
- Does that mean that anyone having seen a Ford and then goes off designing
- hir own car will be sued by Ford for the reason of having been exposed
- to Ford cars ?
- How about journalists using words found in
- <insert the name of your favourite dictionary here> will be sued by the
- publishers of said item ?
-
- Just a thought
- Bernard
-
- P.S. How about anybody who has read the book by Brian & Dennis (who, as far
- as I know, happen to be employed by a certain company) ?
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- *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome,
- *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV
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