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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 25 Jan 1996 01:58:28 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) wrote:
]
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
]
] >The problem is that the SVR4 interfaes are gratuitously
] >incompatible, not the other way around. It wasn't so long
] >ago that conforming to SVID would make you liable for an
] >interface copyright suit.
]
] It *is* the other way around.
Sorry, by=ut for many of the interfaces, SVR4 was not there
first. What is this TLI BS when the sockets interface exists?
How do you explain XTI in light of TLI?
] And when was conforming to SVID a copyright infringement?
About the same time use of published Net/2 sources became
"Trade Secret" infringement, when the law clearly states that
once published a trade secret is no longer protected.
Note that I did not say "guilty of infringing an interface
copyright", I said liable for a suit... ie: open to legal
intimidation tactics that have a historically high probability
of being used.
Even today, I'd still stand witness (along side DMR, who made
the offer in one of his rare public postings) that the Net/2
code does not contain any intellectual property belonging to
USL. We all know UCB wimped out because it would have cost
more money to fight and win than to settle.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.