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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7576 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:18:08 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11868 comp.unix.bsd:10312 comp.org.usenix:3177 comp.unix.wizards:28319 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb24+ Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.wizards Message-ID: <gfLp6=C00YUo4IA48q@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:44:43 -0500 From: William Bardwell <wbardwel+@CMU.EDU> Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... In-Reply-To: <1993Jan20.230616.25164@igor.tamri.com> References: <C0yK27.9Ly@csn.org> <1ja6bgINNh23@chnews.intel.com> <BZS.93Jan16205935@world.std.com> <1993Jan20.230616.25164@igor.tamri.com> Distribution: inet Lines: 20 Get a grip. BSDI, and BSD/386 are attempts to develop a usable operating system in a minimum amount of time from code that was beleived to be copyright Regents of UC and no one else. The state copyright state of that code was not contested until BSDI approached a comercial release. Neither BSDI or BSD/386 were major restructurings or major modifications of the Net-2 release, and as such any complaints about it being a copy of AT&T code must be directed to UCB. UCB has clearly never meant to put Un*x in the public domain, they wanted to do OS research by developing new and novel algorithms to deal with various OS issues. They worked within the structure of the AT&T code, because they wanted to work on one component at a time, and that was funcional code that could be built apon. William Bardwell wbardwel+@[cs.]cmu.edu