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- From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- In-Reply-To: jfw@ksr.com's message of 24 Jul 92 12:41:26 EDT
- Message-ID: <BZS.92Jul25162833@ussr.std.com>
- Sender: usenet@world.std.com (Mr USENET himself)
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- References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com>
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:28:33 GMT
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- From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
- >It is possible that AT&T's *lawyers* do not understand the concept of
- >"anonymous ftp", and when someone finally explains it to them, they'll
- >shit bricks.
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- Gold bricks no doubt.
-
- Although they may not understand anon ftp per se they almost certainly
- understand that the NET 2 software is being freely redistributed (even
- if their conception of this is pimply teen-agers looking roughly like
- Matthew Broderick in War Games running to their friends' houses with a
- black jacketed 5 1/4" floppy.)
-
- It's all very peculiar.
-
- --
- -Barry Shein
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