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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aiai!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <7044@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 3 Aug 92 14:42:42 GMT References: <1992Aug1.020513.14170@plts.uucp> Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 20 > According >to USL, the school effectively rejected a proposal for a full >comparison of Berkeley versus USL code by unbiased third parties >by demanding that the evaluation be limited only to USL-specified >snapshots and by selecting as arbiters for its side members of >the Computer Systems Research Group whose credentials, USL >claims, were already tainted. The restriction to snapshots is perfectly reasonable. If USL "knows for a fact" that NET2 contains proprietary AT&T code, they should say what this code is. Otherwise, they're just on a fishing expedition. >USL and has created a cadre of naive tech weinees ready to form a >lynch mob. Unbiased reporting strikes again. -- jd