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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI Date: 24 Jul 1992 09:50:18 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <14ojorINNlm5@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Jul20.211811.3152@algor2.algorists.com> <ROB.92Jul20165225@hanalei.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul21.030532.10307@kithrup.COM> <1821@adagio.UUCP> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <1821@adagio.UUCP>, grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes: > ... an AT&T > spokesman is quoted as saying that anybody who has had access to AT&T > UNIX (tm) sources cannot develop operating system software which is > not derived from it. ... Hah ! Does that mean that anyone having seen a Ford and then goes off designing hir own car will be sued by Ford for the reason of having been exposed to Ford cars ? How about journalists using words found in <insert the name of your favourite dictionary here> will be sued by the publishers of said item ? Just a thought Bernard P.S. How about anybody who has read the book by Brian & Dennis (who, as far as I know, happen to be employed by a certain company) ? -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV