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- From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Is AT&T listening?...
- Summary: Yes, and they're still a bunch of twits.
- Message-ID: <97@ampr.ab.ca>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:40:08 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.200547.22246@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Organization: Boycott AT&T!
- Lines: 21
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- mgrjtb@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu writes:
-
- > I have seen people from apple.com very active in the Linux newsgroup, which
- > would seem like treason to me, and ADM and Intel people in the comp.sys.intel
- > group, but we haven't heard from AT&T here.
-
- > AT&T, are you listening?
-
- Yes, they're listening. cjc@ulysses.att.com was kind enough to point
- out that one of my previous postings about the copying of /bin/true
- source code was incorrect. It is in fact, as he stated in e-mail, the
- BSD version of /bin/true that contains 'echo 0'. The System V version
- of /bin/true instead contains five lines of copyright notice, one line
- of version control information, and a colon.
-
- What really impresses me about System V's version of /bin/true is that
- it only took them four revision of the code to get a single character
- shell script right. Now THAT's the sort of intellectual property I would
- hire a building full of lawyers to defend!
-
- AT&T: just say NO.
-