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- From: del@giant.INTraNet.COM (G. Del Merritt)
- Subject: Re: What is LPF position on AT&T v. BSDI?
- Message-ID: <0095E2BFC5C460A0.2F0027F1@giant.IntraNet.com>
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:01:21 GMT
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- In-reply-to: UUCP%"adagio!grog@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu" 's message of 26-JUL-1992 11:32:46.69
- >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.
-
- Gee. How much of UNIX(tm) has been published in K&R's C gospel(s)?
- To drive the point home, who here has _never_ looked at "The C
- Programming Language"?
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