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From: jtkohl@zk3.dec.com (John Kohl)
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI
In-Reply-To: jbass@igor.tamri.com's message of Wed, 3 Mar 93 12:07:27 GMT
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In article <1993Mar3.120727.11788@igor.tamri.com> jbass@igor.tamri.com (John Bass) writes:

> The issue is that, the internal details of this design ARE AT&T property
> and UCB/CSRG accepted the information under non-disclosure knowing that
> the design represented proprietary information disclosed as a trade secret.

That is a key issue: do AT&T's copyright/trade secret/other intellectual
property rights apply to the interfaces in question?  I'm not sure, and
I expect that's one of the things that will come out in trial.
--
John Kohl <jtkohl@zk3.dec.com> or <jtkohl@mit.edu>
working for but not representing:	Digital Equipment Corporation
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---get details: lpf@uunet.uu.net
(The above opinions are MINE.  Don't put my words in somebody else's mouth!)