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- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:59:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.185923.3276@kithrup.COM>
- Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD
- References: <3674@vidiot.UUCP> <sb380.711882282@fred> <14105@ksr.com>
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- In article <14105@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
- >AT&T's problem might be that they
- >have been too slow to act -- in particular, "The Design of the 4.3BSD Operating
- >System" has been out for quite some time, and presumably would have disclosed
- >the same trade secrets (one hopes that they will try to avoid claiming anything
- >that *they* published in the Bach book, to avoid looking really stupid).
-
- McKusick et al stated, just after the book was published, that they were
- very careful to discuss only the same algorithms discussed in Bach, if those
- algorithms came from AT&T code. (If the algorithms came from elsewhere,
- then, of course, there was no problem.)
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah
- sef@kithrup.COM | complex. But I forgive him."
- -----------------+ -- Jim Carrey
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
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