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From: bzs@ussr.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
In-Reply-To: jfw@ksr.com's message of 24 Jul 92 12:41:26 EDT
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:28:33 GMT
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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
>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.
Gold bricks no doubt.
Although they may not understand anon ftp per se they almost certainly
understand that the NET 2 software is being freely redistributed (even
if their conception of this is pimply teen-agers looking roughly like
Matthew Broderick in War Games running to their friends' houses with a
black jacketed 5 1/4" floppy.)
It's all very peculiar.
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-Barry Shein
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