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- From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: What is LPF position on AT&T v. BSDI?
- Message-ID: <1837@adagio.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 14:05:03 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.020023.10999@algor2.algorists.com>
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- In article <1992Jul24.020023.10999@algor2.algorists.com> jeffrey@algor2.algorists.com (Jeffrey Kegler) writes:
- >Specific questions:
- >
- >2) I assume the LPF has no opinion on the matter of whether BSDI can
- >use 800-ITS-UNIX as its phone number. Is this right?
-
- This is a dead issue. BSDI agreed back in April to stop using this
- number.
-
- I can't speak for the LPF either (I've been meaning to join for I
- don't know how long, but haven't got round to it yet, though this
- business is going to speed things up), but I tend to agree that it's
- not LPF's charter to take sides in battles between commercial
- companies. A side effect of this dispute, however, is much more
- sinister: AT&T claims that, if you have been exposed to UNIX source
- code, you can't develop any related product which is not in some way
- UNIX-tainted and thus requires a UNIX license. This is effectively a
- career-limiting action. Since nearly every computer science student
- has been exposed to UNIX sources in some form, the effect of a
- precedent here could be monumental, and would definitely stand in no
- relationship to the real importance of the code.
-
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