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From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
Summary: We don't give a shit; we're The Phone Company
Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD
Message-ID: <89@ampr.ab.ca>
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:58:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: ampr.89
References: x <l6nkifINNjoo@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul22.103717.17224@uropax.contrib.de>
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd
Organization: BOYCOTT AT&T
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src@uropax.contrib.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

> that would mean, that anyone who has ever read c header files
> on a AT&T UNIX system, which are 'licensed material', is
> him/herself contaminated for his lifetime? that would certainly
> be absurd.

It's worse than that. Pretty near every posting to comp.sources.*
contains code copied directly from System V. Do you see the line
'exit 0' at the end of each posting. It's obviously been lifted
directly from the source for /bin/true.

Death of the Net Predicted.

Kill the lawyers. Boycott AT&T.