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- From: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!
- Message-ID: <4938@airs.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 03:55:46 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.131433.16450@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <l6vt9sINN93u@neuro.usc.edu> <23309@alice.att.com>
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- andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) writes:
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- >an embargo against plan 9, as some have proposed, would be utterly pointless.
- >do you seriously think for a femtosecond that USL gives a damn about you
- >using plan 9? (i'm sure they are indifferent but if they had an opinion, they
- >are probably glad you aren't using plan 9.)
-
- I think it's fairly clear that avoiding Plan 9 will have little or no
- effect on the law suit against BSDI. However, it appears to me that
- avoiding Plan 9 would be a good way to avoid law suits in the future.
- Once upon a time Unix was available as a research system, and many
- people looked at it. USL is now essentially alleging that those
- people can no longer produce untainted OS code. What's to stop the
- same thing from happening with Plan 9 in the future? Much as I
- respect Mr. Hume and the people who have worked on Plan 9, and
- although I find its ideas quite interesting, you could not pay me to
- look at that code now.
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