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- From: orion@nuchat.nuchat.sccsi.com (Roland Dunkerley)
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- In-Reply-To: hvozda@wilbur.psu.edu's message of 27 Jul 92 23:41:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <ORION.92Jul28023753@nuchat.nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Sender: orion@nuchat.sccsi.com (Roland Dunkerley)
- Organization: Eristic Rite In Software, Houston, Tx.
- References: <FSTX.92Jul22102314@meryl.csd.uu.se> <1992Jul22.235604.27104@exlog.com>
- <1992Jul25.222121.20426@socrates.umd.edu> <s6j1Hp4!q8@atlantis.psu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:37:53 GMT
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- >>>>> On 27 Jul 92 23:41:15 GMT, hvozda@wilbur.psu.edu (Eric Hvozda) said:
-
- |> In article <1992Jul25.222121.20426@socrates.umd.edu>
- |> ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
- >Comments?
-
- |> Indeed!
-
- |> It is a shame companies can be so petty over such things
- |> when all poeple want to do is make a living...
- I thought there was a precedent that no agreement you make with a
- company can prohibit you from earning a living in your chosen
- profession. Hopefully someone will correct me if I have the details
- wrong, but the particular case I am thinking of has to do with Greg
- Wilcox (I think that's his name, it's been a while), the founder of
- Alpha-Micro. Anyway, he left DEC with tapes of an early version of
- RSTS under his arm, founded Alpha-Micro selling systems based on the
- LSI-11 processor with a re-arranged instruction set running AMOS, an
- exact clone of RSTS. The binary images were different due to the
- re-arranged instruction set. The court ruled that not only could DEC
- not prohibit him from writing OS software since that was his primary
- profession, but that if he had written RSTS once, he could therefore
- write it again. Of course, this was before look and feel, these days,
- DEC could claim that he had infringed on the look and feel of their
- software and probably win on those grounds. Too bad Atari managed to
- create the concept of look and feel, we'd certainly be better off
- without it. Of course, I can do without a Mac or Mac-related job just
- fine... Don't think I'll be buying anything from Lotus either.
- --
- "I still dream of Orgonon..." --- KaTe Bush, Cloudbusting
- Fnord. Roland Pleasant Dunkerley III, KSC
- South Coast Computing Services, Inc - Houston Public Access UNIX
- orion@nuchat.sccsi.com {uhnix1,uunet}!nuchat!orion
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- "I still dream of Orgonon..." --- KaTe Bush, Cloudbusting
- Fnord. Roland Pleasant Dunkerley III, KSC
- South Coast Computing Services, Inc - Houston Public Access UNIX
- orion@nuchat.sccsi.com {uhnix1,uunet}!nuchat!orion
-