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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: USL vs. 386BSD derivatives Message-ID: <hastyCnwoL5.F9z@netcom.com> Keywords: USL, 386BSD Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <Joel.2.0011F385@InfoMagic.com> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 20:22:16 GMT Lines: 33 In article <Joel.2.0011F385@InfoMagic.com> Joel@InfoMagic.com (Joel Goldberger) writes: >Presumably InfoMagic is not alone among distributors of 386BSD and its >derivatives in having received a form letter from USL requested that we cease >distribution of any systems derived from the Berkeley Net/2 Tape. They claim, >as they did against UCB & BSDI, that this code violates their copyrights. > >Is there any plan within the Net/Free/386BSD community to address these USL >claims ? > I am sure that if usl keeps suing people that eventually they may win a case :) Perhaps, if we all start writing letters to Novell's president we might actually get them to stop this non-sense. We could tell Novell that the best defense they have against Microsoft is the freely available PC unix systems. Also, given that bsd4.4-lite is going to be freely available and that BSDI continues to release bsd, it is pretty much senseless for usl to stop the net2 distribution already available on the Net. So the question now is: Will the Net sit back or strike back ? Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X