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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!raven!rcd From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI Summary: What can we do most effectively? Message-ID: <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> Date: 23 Jul 92 17:32:48 GMT References: <1821@adagio.UUCP> <14kcimINNcr5@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado Lines: 33 paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen) writes: >I think someone should give BSDI a medal for doing their work... Easy, there. BSDI is doing what they must do to survive as a business. They *have* done their legal homework, and let's hope it's good enough. But let's save the celebration for when the battle's over and they've won. >...More to >the point, we should start contributing to the "BSDI legal defense fund." I don't think that's a very effective way to go. If you want to contribute to BSDI's efforts, buy their product. I'm not saying that because the legal issues are unimportant, but because a "legal defense fund" isn't the way for a small group of people to have a significant effect against a large corporation with lots of lawyers. If you're really rich, or in some position to make a substantial contribution to the legal battle, fine... but that's doesn't apply to most of the readers of this group. USL can just throw money at the battle; it's hard for us to do that effectively. Instead, think of ways we can use the abilities or the connections we do have. Most of us are just ordinary individuals with ordinary amounts of money. I think a better way to help is to make the BSD-based software widely available. Encourage the use of *any* systems based on Net 2 (yes, gasp!, I'm advocating both BSDI and 386BSD in the same breath), get them out all over the world. USL hasn't moved against Net 2, which sure looks like tacit approval to me...so let's make sure it's everywhere. My own opinion is that the genie is already out of the bottle anyway, and not likely to be put back in, but we might as well try to be as thorough as we can. -- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado ...A clear analysis of any situation is often mistaken for pessimism.