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- From: bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad)
- Subject: Re: AT&T/USL CD-ROM Review Process
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.183240.23944@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- References: <1992Dec12.233537.12931@netcom.com> <1ge0aaINNm4d@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Dec13.165418.5021@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:32:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.165418.5021@sbcs.sunysb.edu> sayre@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Johannes Sayre) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec13.021307.24664@lgc.com> danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson) writes:
- >>In article <1ge0aaINNm4d@neuro.usc.edu>, merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >>... It seems to me that this action would automatically involve the 386bsd
- >>users in the current USL/BSDI lawsuit
- >
- >... which would suit some people just fine. The success of UNIX, and the
- >particular way in which it succeeded, has made people in all sorts of fields
- >and organizations insecure and/or resentful. Bad advice will be generally
- >rampant in such times.
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- I'ld like to know why people think that USL won't sue the Jolitzes
- if they win against BSDI. Is there something magically wrong that BSDI did
- that the Jolitzes didn't. (Okay, BSDI charges money.) Still, I'ld like
- 386BSD and the other freeware Unix clones to succeed to the extent that I
- can purchase support for them. I'm quite happy to hack on my own system for
- fun, but when I go to work it would be nice to be able to use the same
- system. Until I can safely trade some of my employers money for less
- hacking on the company time clock, I won't be able to do this. I can
- understand that this might not be the primary goal of either Jolitz (386BSD)
- or Linus (Linux); but I would hope that neither one of them would mind their
- software being used for something besides hacking. I predict that if it
- appears even remotely that 386BSD or Linux are starting to encroach on the
- commercial Unix market; USL will take any and all legal steps possible to
- stop their further distribution.
-
- Bill Bogstad
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