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- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit (was Re: GNU kids on the block?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.013945.5767@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug26.205942.23188@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <RWD.92Aug26182604@ERNST.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU> <59917@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:39:45 GMT
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- You guys remember Hitler vs. (Chamberlain + Daladier) on Czechoslovakia
- issues? Isolationism and appeasement only make things worse. Both
- James and Randall are right. If CMU is backing off from this, it
- might become the next France, while FSF seems to be a Poland.
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- I don't object to the Linux layer on top of Hurd since I am a Linuxer.
- But FSF should be fighting for this in principle. It's time to prove
- that the cover of the "GNU Emacs Manual" reflects what FSF is.
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- In article <59917@mimsy.umd.edu> jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes:
- >Randall Dean rwd+@CS.CMU.EDU writes:
- >>While we are not about to stop anyone who already has a copy from using
- >>BNR2SS, we are no longer distributing it. CMU is not willing to risk
- >>getting drawn into a lawsuit over this. By stopping distribution as soon
- >>as the lawsuit with BSDI and CSRG went public, we can claim that we acted
- >>in good faith and never knowingly distributed AT&T code.
- >
- >Damn. Looks like AT&T/USL has already won if a place with as deep pockets
- >and as long a history/reputation in the university Unix community as CMU is
- >backing off rather than standing behind Berkeley. I hope for your sakes
- >USL doesn't later decide Mach3 and any derived products are a threat to its
- >revenue stream.
- >
- >Note that I can't really blame CMU: Maryland would almost certainly do the
- >same thing. This whole system of legal extortion and intimidation sucks
- >rocks.
- >
- >Thanks for the note, Randall.
- >Jaime
- >............................................................................
- >: Stand on my shoulders, : jds@cs.umd.edu : James da Silva
- >: not on my toes. : uunet!mimsy!jds : Systems Design & Analysis Group
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