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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!engr.uark.edu!tep From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <1992Aug5.003803.28740@engr.uark.edu> Date: 5 Aug 92 00:38:03 GMT References: <45961@shamash.cdc.com> <25138@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> <5486@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> Sender: netnews@engr.uark.edu (NetNews Administrator) Reply-To: tep@engr.uark.edu Organization: University of Arkansas Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: engr.uark.edu Organiztion: University of Arkansas, Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes: >In article <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: >> It seems to me that the university was not really trying to solve the >>issue when they refused to let a mutually agreed third party examing the >>whole body of code. By insisting on snapshots they give the appearance >>of trying to hide something, even if they're not. >> >>-- >>bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345 > > >As AT&T made the complaint with the explicit "you're using AT&T code/trade >secrets" it is surely reasonable to ask that they specify which parts of the >code contains the infringments. Otherwise it's a fishing expedition. > I just finished reading the ammended complaint that added the Regents to the suit and from what I got out of it USL is not claiming that there are SPECIFIC PARTS that contain infingements, but that NET2, as a whole, is an infringement. So, go figure..... -- +--------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Tim Peoples | The time has come the user said, | | tep@engr.uark.edu | to talk of many things; | | Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering| of simms and sockets and symaphores,| | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | of processes and pings.... | +--------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | I need no disclaimer; nobody listens to what I have to say anyway!! | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+