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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6816 ; Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:36:14 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11538 comp.unix.bsd:9985 comp.unix.wizards:28206 comp.org.usenix:3080 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!ncar!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uunet!not-for-mail From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Date: 15 Jan 1993 14:51:39 -0800 Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 32 Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1j7f5rINNqvn@ftp.UU.NET> References: <BZS.93Jan14203519@world.std.com> <BETSYS.93Jan15143516@ra.cs.umb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net In article <BETSYS.93Jan15143516@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes: >(4) preliminarily enjoining and restraining BSDI, its >officers, agents, employees, servants, and all persons >in active concert or participation with them, from >employing, authorizing or otherwise allowing any person >who has had access to UNIX operating system source code >or any works, notes, memoranda, or other records, >copied from, based upon, or derived from such software, >disclosed to such person or his employer in confidence, >to participate on behalf of BSDI in the development of >source code for a multi-user computer operating system, >during the pendency of this action; The fun part about that, which I don't know how many people have recognized or admitted, is that the Bach abd BSD books fall under the category of "works, noted, memoranda" "copied from, based upon, or derived from" the USL code. In other words: BSDI would be prevented from hiring anyone who has read one of the two most popular books for operating system classes! And, of course, "persons in active concert or participation with" BSDI also happens to include their customers. (In all honesty, I don't think it's likely for USL to get that injunction, and I have been told it's common practice to "shoot for the moon," expecting to get less. Nonetheless... scary, ain't it?) Ya' know... UseNIX is coming up. I kinda feel sorry for any USL people who might be coming. They're probably going to get a whole lot of unwanted (and probably undeserved) attention.