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From: mjs@s4mjs.uucp (M.J.Shannon)
Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
Message-ID: <1993Jan17.203539.6063@s4mjs.uucp>
Organization: MJS's Box, Plainfield, NJ
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In article <93Jan15.211025edt.1578@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> tg@cs.toronto.edu (Tom Glinos) writes:
] In article <1j7f5rINNqvn@ftp.UU.NET> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
] >Ya' know... UseNIX is coming up.  I kinda feel sorry for any USL people
] >who might be coming.  They're probably going to get a whole lot of unwanted
] >(and probably undeserved) attention.
] 
] I think it would be a great idea if USL people showed up.
] This way, we could tell them, in person, what we think.
] That's what USENIX is all about!

Uh, has it occurred to anyone out there that the folks doing the
litigating (the lawyers, presumably with prodding from the upper levels
of management) are the least likely folks to ever appear at a trade
show?  The folks attending the conference are just like all the rest of
us trying to earn our keep by doing the UNIX/software thing.

Look, I'm not fond of what USL is doing *as* *a* *corporate* *body*, but
I like a lot of the things the folks in the trenches have done.  Do you
seriously want to be abused because of the corporate policies of *your*
employer?
-- 
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