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- From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
- Subject: USL vs. BSDI, and what to do
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.170447.11039@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
- Organization: Mentor Graphics, Silicon Design Division
- References: <1992Jul21.131433.16450@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <2cHS02Pi1bvx01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <l6vrqvINN91g@neuro.usc.edu> <l6vt9sINN93u@neuro.usc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:04:47 GMT
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- In <l6vt9sINN93u@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
-
-
- > o Domestic and international letters should be addressed to:
-
- > o Mr. Robert E. Allen
- > Chief Executive Officer and
- > Chairman of the Board of Directors
- >[...]
-
- I hate to say this, but Bob has nothing to do with this. AT&T didn't
- bring the law suit. USL did. USL has a different chair person, and
- has their own lawyers (from what I've heard, they don't share lawyers...
- so much for the "army of lawyers").
-
- > o These letters should also point out that the release notes for
- > the public releases of 4.3BSD-NET1 (June 1988) and 4.3BSD-NET2
- > distributions clearly state that they contain no code licensed
- > by AT&T or others -- instead, the code is owned by the Regents
- > of the University of California -- and the code may be used by
- > anyone for any purpose as long as due credit is given to the
- > University and the University copyright notices are retained.
-
- Thought I haven't seen a complete copy of the suit (could someone post
- it or email it to me?) I believe all it claims is that proper black box
- techniques were not used to generate the NET2 (not NET1) release.
- (blackbox techniques means like what Phoenix used when developing their
- BIOS clone). Doesn't that make the above statement moot?
-
- Hype from all over, more heat than light, more flames than news.
- I think I'll start reading talk.bizarre instead.
-
- Tom
- --
- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play)
- Maybe Bush will follow Perot's lead.
-