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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7598 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:18:36 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11876 comp.unix.bsd:10323 comp.unix.wizards:28322 comp.org.usenix:3180 Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!psinntp!isc-newsserver!ultb!kxs5829 From: kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders) Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <1993Jan22.130032.20038@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Sender: news@ultb.isc.rit.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ultb-gw.isc.rit.edu Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology References: <1ja6bgINNh23@chnews.intel.com> <BZS.93Jan16205935@world.std.com> <1993Jan20.230616.25164@igor.tamri.com> Distribution: inet Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:00:32 GMT Lines: 37 In article <1993Jan20.230616.25164@igor.tamri.com> jbass@igor.tamri.com (John Bass) writes: <First, the group at UCB, Joltz, BSDI, and others all have acted <out a plan to attempt to place the AT&T/USL UNIX product into the <public domain. A conspiracy based in false "Robin Hood" ethics. < <...cry about freedom of expression while tring ... it's WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! < <...productively used to advance the art with a new design. Their actions <have been WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! You seem a little bitter. <I LOVE UNIX and have been a wild supporter for 17 years ... but it <has it limits, and just as MS-DOS, those limits are preventing <us from moving forward to better technologies. A wild supporter of that tired '60s design, eh? <It's time we get out of the herd mentality and view the USL vs BSDI <lawsuit as it really is ... a botched attempt by BSDI & Joltz to <plagiarize UNIX. Let's not make folk heros of them over their petty <actions. Lets focus instead on the other teams that are bringing us <our future. Uh huh. You, sir, are clueless. <John Bass <Consultant <DMS Design - Kyle -- _,--\_/>> kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu // Amiga weenie `"""-(_-\ kyle@nick.csh.rit.edu \\ // _,// \_\ \X/ *""' "" not representing Phoenix Systems Inc.