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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
Message-ID: <14100@ksr.com>
Date: 24 Jul 92 12:41:26 EDT
References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> <1992Jul23.180514.26289@cshl.org> <1992Jul24.004536@eklektix.com>
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rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>But what I meant is that USL has not (as far as I know) made any attempt to
>stop the distribution of Net 2.  Right now, this very instant, you can
>reach out and touch any of several ftp sites to get a copy of Net 2.  It's
>pretty weird--that they're not complaining about the source of the unre-
>stricted distribution (CSRG) but they complain about someone else (BSDI)
>redistributing it.  I don't claim I understand it; all I'm saying is that
>it *appears* they don't want to restrict Net 2 _per_se_.

It is possible that AT&T's *lawyers* do not understand the concept of
"anonymous ftp", and when someone finally explains it to them, they'll
shit bricks.