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- Path: sparky!uunet!utoday!wagner
- From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
- Subject: Re: AT&T or USL, and extrapolation
- Organization: Open Systems Today
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 15:56:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.155634.11081@utoday.com>
- References: <1992Jul23.064028@eklektix.com>
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- In article <1992Jul23.064028@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
- #The discussion about the BSDI lawsuit seems to be focusing on AT&T. These
- #days, it's really USL which is responsible for the development (such as it
- #is) and the licensing of UNIX systems. Now, my understanding is that USL
- #isn't exactly a piece of AT&T but isn't exactly separate either. Can any-
- #one explain the real nature of this neither-fishy-nor-foul relationship?
- #It bears on things such as whether it means anything at all to protest by
- #changing your long-distance service. Could any information actually
- #trickle down/across to USL? (I doubt that it has much effect in the best
- #case, but I'm wondering if it has any at all.)
-
- AT&T is a majority shareholder in USL.
-
- What does this mean as far as how much clout AT&T has. I don't know,
- and I think anybody who CLAIMS to know without sitting in on some
- Board of Directors meetings for USL is simply blowing smoke. AT&T is a
- mighty big corporation and USL---which has about $100 million
- revenues---is might small stuff to them.
-
- -- mitch w.
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-