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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2250 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:51:02 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!cherokee!huntting From: huntting@advtech.uswest.com (Brad Huntting) Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI Message-ID: <1993Feb25.221456.14935@advtech.uswest.com> Sender: news@advtech.uswest.com (Radio Free Boulder) Nntp-Posting-Host: futureworld.advtech.uswest.com Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies References: <HALEY.93Feb23030107@husc11.harvard.edu> <1mdar0INNn5n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <6407@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 22:14:56 GMT Lines: 33 In article <HALEY.93Feb23030107@husc11.harvard.edu> haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes: >The 1-800-ITS-UNIX thing? What about, for instance, the mug in my >office from another company with the phone number 1-800-SAY-UNIX? >That company, needless to say, is not being litigated. My understanding is that this issue was settled very early on and is no longer contested. BSDI agreed not to use (or advertise?) phone numbers with the digits 8649 in them, and USL agreed. Having succeeded in forcing BSDI to call all it's first production release "gamma", USL is trying to stall the case until BSDI is bankrupted. They of course claim to have evidence that NET2 contains USL code, but refuse to produce it or point out where it is. They also say that NET2 was produced by people who themselfs were "tainted" by prolonged exposure to USL propriatary code. This is taintamount to saying that these people (including many of the best minds in the computer industry) are themselfs "USL propriatary", and any code they produce which is remotely like anything found in unix(*) belongs to USL. brad * Unix is a trademark of USL, an infamous organized crime ring specializing in intellectual proporty scams. USL is a spinoff of one of the longest running "legit" criminal estabilishments in U S history, AT&T, which violated various antitrust laws and utility regulations for most of this century. ** U S WEST may not agree with the above statments.