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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7106 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:47:33 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:28251 comp.org.eff.talk:11674 comp.org.usenix:3113 comp.unix.bsd:10099 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!utcsri!relay.cs.toronto.edu!smoke.cs.toronto.edu!cs.toronto.edu!tg Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi From: tg@cs.toronto.edu (Tom Glinos) Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <93Jan18.110315edt.847@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto References: <93Jan15.211025edt.1578@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1993Jan17.203539.6063@s4mjs.uucp> <93Jan17.211032edt.847@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1993Jan18.084217.11262@s4mjs.uucp> Date: 18 Jan 93 16:03:43 GMT Lines: 38 In article <1993Jan18.084217.11262@s4mjs.uucp> mjs@s4mjs.uucp (M.J.Shannon) writes: >Down that path lies unemployment -- permanently (see Tom's signature >below). > >Been there. Done that. Hated it. (You can quote me on that.) Facinating. I too lost a job because I strongly believed in what I was doing. I have no regrets in what I did. But was I right? I really don't know. Wisdom comes slowly in this world. >] Imagine you are in a uniform. You think the enemy won't take shots >] at you because you don't share the same opinion as your political leaders?? >Well, you could say that's why I didn't enlist. It isn't why, but you >could still say that. > >] Remind you of someplace familiar?? I was alluding to Saddam and his troops :-) >As I said above, are you willing to be abused for your company's >lawyers' mistakes -- and forfeit your gainful employment because of your >beliefs (and theirs, and the lack of unanimity thereof)? Gimme a break! >We all do what we have to to make a buck.... Willing, no! It's not the lawyers' driving this. It's managment at USL. I was working at AT&T when the SVR3 license came out and I too got abused by the outside world. I'm not saying that managment was right or wrong but I am saying they could have handled the problems a whole lot differently and definitely a whole lot better. Failure to resolve the SVR3 licensing issues resulted in OSF and the "UNIX Wars" The consequences of the BSDI suit, may be far more serious. -- ================= Prediction, 1993, Year the UNIX | Tom Glinos @ U of Toronto Statistics industry collapsed | tg@utstat.toronto.edu