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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!umeecs!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!news.stolaf.edu!news.stolaf.edu!quanstro From: quanstro@lars.StOlaf.edu (goon) Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI In-Reply-To: ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU's message of 23 Jul 92 22:50:26 GMT Message-ID: <QUANSTRO.92Jul24122923@lars.StOlaf.edu> Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> <1992Jul23.204845.28978@ddsw1.mcs.com> <4825@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: 24 Jul 92 12:29:23 Lines: 23 In article <4825@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: So the question is: What can I do (as a private individual) to help BSDI, and intellectual freedom? Looks pretty bleak, doesn't it. The only option is to directly donate money to BSDI, or (equivalent) buy a copy of BSDI's Unix which I don't need right now. What a sec. Perhaps I am being rather dense. But aside from size and age (two factors which are rather irrevelent) What's the difference between BSDI and AT&T. They are both trying to __sell__ a rather expensive operating system. And since _when_ does selling a system have to do with intellectual freedom. Suppose that BSDI were to continue with their operating system and suppose that in ten years somebody else tried to say that they were BSDI UNIX. Don't you think that BSDI would get a little upset? This is not a rhetorical question (if there is something one can do to help, I'd like to know), although it really looks like there is nothing one can do. Short of tossing Molotov-cocktails into the nearest AT&T facility (which again is not suggested and a crime, for good reason). Er, we aren't talking about anything _really_ important here. There are much more important things to get upset about.