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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!alberta!canada!lyndon From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI Summary: We don't give a shit; we're The Phone Company Message-ID: <85@ampr.ab.ca> Date: 23 Jul 92 07:34:08 GMT References: <QUANSTRO.92Jul21140234@lars.StOlaf.edu> <1992Jul21.235727.4693@unislc.uucp> Organization: Alberta Packet Radio Network Lines: 13 erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes: > The bottom line is that, if AT&T wins, any piece of code that any programmer > has written or will write that contains even the slightest hint of containing > "intellectual property" of AT&T (such as "for(i=0;i<XYZ; i++)") will be > claimed by AT&T as derivitive of that so-called "intellectual property". Hrumph! I worked at a shop with a SVR3 source license. I guess I really wanted to get out of this damned business anyway. > Oops ... I just did it, didn't I? :) I'm still looking for a bass player :-)