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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unido!adagio!grog From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T or USL, and extrapolation Message-ID: <1830@adagio.UUCP> Date: 24 Jul 92 18:26:53 GMT References: <1992Jul23.064028@eklektix.com> Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany Lines: 16 In article <1992Jul23.064028@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes: >Next...There's been a lot of extrapolation from what is known about the >lawsuit to what it might mean. People are off guessing how AT&T must think >that nobody who's seen the inside of UNIX can do OS work without revealing >trade secret and nobody's going to be able to work in the field any more... To be fair, this was stated in a recent edition of Unigram-X. Of course I can't find the !!(&*(&@ any more, but the gist was that an AT&T spokesman said that nobody who had worked with Unix source could produce unencumbered code. -- Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 LEMIS | Fax: +49-6637-1489 Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany *** NOTE ***: Headers are mangled - reply to grog%lemis@Germany.EU.net