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- From: mark@adec23.uucp (Mark Salyzyn)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Organization: ADEC Systems Inc.
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:36:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.193601.5978@adec23.uucp>
- References: <4825@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> <1992Jul23.204845.28978@ddsw1.mcs.com>
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- ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) sez:
- > ... Stuff about feeling helpless ...
- >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.
-
- Ok, in the US litigant (tm) society, a counter suit sounds in order. Wasn't
- it AT&T that lost big last time a Anti-Trust violation was lodged against
- them? When one feels helpless against a giant, it comes time to split
- the giant up into tiny little pieces. This court case is a PRIME example
- of AT&T back to it's old tricks again and I think it is necessary to
- write to your congresspeople (or MPs in Canada) and make your feeling
- known that AT&T is beginning to corner the market again, against all
- competition.
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- AT&T dweebs may think they can win a battle in new joisy, but if they in fact
- do, doesn't it also prove they have a monopoly?
-
- Ciao -- Mark Salyzyn
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