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- From: quanstro@lars.StOlaf.edu (goon)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- In-Reply-To: ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU's message of 23 Jul 92 22:50:26 GMT
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 12:29:23
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- In article <4825@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes:
- 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.
-
- What a sec. Perhaps I am being rather dense. But aside from size and
- age (two factors which are rather irrevelent) What's the difference
- between BSDI and AT&T. They are both trying to __sell__ a rather
- expensive operating system. And since _when_ does selling a system
- have to do with intellectual freedom. Suppose that BSDI were to
- continue with their operating system and suppose that in ten years
- somebody else tried to say that they were BSDI UNIX. Don't you think
- that BSDI would get a little upset?
-
- 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).
-
- Er, we aren't talking about anything _really_ important here. There
- are much more important things to get upset about.
-