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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7794 ; Tue, 26 Jan 93 07:00:27 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.wizards:28357 comp.org.eff.talk:11954 comp.org.usenix:3200 comp.unix.bsd:10396 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!ddsw1!karl From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Message-ID: <C1DrrD.LyL@ddsw1.mcs.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:57:13 GMT Distribution: inet References: <1993Jan17.203539.6063@s4mjs.uucp> <C12urA.7Dw@wimsey.bc.ca> <1jq20bINNq7a@slab.mtholyoke.edu> Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL Lines: 26 In article <1jq20bINNq7a@slab.mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes: >In article <C12urA.7Dw@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes: >>Given the importance of presenting a positive image at a large trade >>show and the $$$ spent to achieve it, you can bet that two things would >>happen. First you *would* get noticed. And second you would probably be >>escorted off the premises. > >Excuse me? Get escorted of USENIX premises for telling a USL employee >what I thought USL could do with their lawsuit? What the hell? Nobody >is likely to beat anybody else up over this, you know, and this /is/ a >free country, and AT&T (or Novell) is /not/ big brother. Given that USL does not own Usenix, and that you have the right to free speech, I would dare say that doing so would expose USENIX to a rather expensive legal adventure known as a lawsuit. I've given SCO and other vendors a hard time at trade shows several times; none has had the audacity to attempt to have me removed. If they had, you can bet I'd be back in 10 minutes with the TV crews. You want bad publicity? Start something like that and if it is me you have removed <YOU WILL HAVE BAD PUBLICITY>. Trust me. -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Data Line: [+1 312 248-0900]