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From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
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Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
Date: 19 Jan 1993 22:15:00 GMT
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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/*"