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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: BSDI vs. USL information. :-) Message-ID: <1993Mar10.045008.11895@coe.montana.edu> Summary: happy happy Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 04:50:08 GMT Lines: 67 Since this *IS* comp.unix.bsd, and now the 386BSD crowd has left (but hopefully most of you are still reading this) This will have a positive affect on us, so here is a re-post from alt.suit.att-bsdi. From reading the posting, it doesn't appear that it's all over, but at least it's a good start. From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi Subject: BSDI Press Release Date: 10 Mar 1993 04:10:11 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1njpn3INN5c1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu I just received this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- USL Motion Against BSDI Dismissed. Unix System Laboratories, a majority-owned subsidiary of AT&T, has been unsuccessful in its attempt to stop the distribution of BSD/386, a UNIX-compatible software product offered by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. BSD/386 is designed to run on IBM-compatible personal computers, and is based on the Networking Release 2 software developed at the University of California, at Berkeley. USL had sought to enjoin the distribution of BSD/386 pending trial, alleging that both the University and Berkeley Software Design had infringed copyrights and trade secrets in its 32V UNIX operating system. However, in an opinion filed March 3, 1993, in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise denied USL's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the distribution of BSD/386. His denial was based on a finding that USL was unlikely to succeed in showing that it had a valid copyright in 32V and that USL had not successfully shown that either Networking Release 2 or BSD/386 contained any trade secrets belonging to USL. In making that ruling, Judge Debevoise noted that the accused header files, file names and function names were not trade secrets and stated that on the current record he "was unable to ascertain whether any aspect of Net2 or BSD/386, be it an individual line of code or the overall system organization, deserves protection as Plaintiff's trade secret." Berkeley Software Design thus remains free to distribute BSD/386 without restriction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.'' -- Arthur Schlesinger Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom