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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7236 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:50:29 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11746 comp.unix.bsd:10182 comp.unix.wizards:28270 comp.org.usenix:3133 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!chnews!sedona!bhoughto From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: 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: 19 Jan 1993 22:15:00 GMT Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona Lines: 29 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1jhuh4INNopg@chnews.intel.com> References: <1jdibnINN52u@usenet.pa.dec.com> <1jftlvINNq62@chnews.intel.com> <C13yAn.BC@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nasdaq.intel.com In article <C13yAn.BC@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn) writes: >In article <1jftlvINNq62@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >>Yes, it is. Ritchie placed it there [in the PD], after the patent was [...] >>And I heard it was Ritchie's, not AT&T's (as long >>as we're being fast and loose). Ritchie sent me email today with these same corrections to my statements, so now we know: >Actually, the adjective [...] is "dedicated". >I asked D. Richie about this [and] he indicated that the patent >was AT&T's (does Bell Labs retain all patents of its researchers?) Sounds typical. I considered the myth that it was all-his an indication of the esteem they'd have had for him, since corporations almost never do such a thing. Apparently, they really never do such a thing. Why they "dedicated" it remains a mystery. (And, in perfect Freudian style, I saved Dennis' message to ~/mfold/unix and promptly deleted that exact folder while trying to rm the typo-named ~/mfold/uix and ~/mfold/unid... I couldn't wait until tomorrow, when today's files would have been on a backup tape, could I...I think I'll go soak my head in a bucket of hexafluoric acid for a while...) --Blair "rm -rf $HOME/brains/*"