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- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <14100@ksr.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 12:41:26 EDT
- References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> <1992Jul23.180514.26289@cshl.org> <1992Jul24.004536@eklektix.com>
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- rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- >But what I meant is that USL has not (as far as I know) made any attempt to
- >stop the distribution of Net 2. Right now, this very instant, you can
- >reach out and touch any of several ftp sites to get a copy of Net 2. It's
- >pretty weird--that they're not complaining about the source of the unre-
- >stricted distribution (CSRG) but they complain about someone else (BSDI)
- >redistributing it. I don't claim I understand it; all I'm saying is that
- >it *appears* they don't want to restrict Net 2 _per_se_.
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- It is possible that AT&T's *lawyers* do not understand the concept of
- "anonymous ftp", and when someone finally explains it to them, they'll
- shit bricks.
-