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From: kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders)
Subject: Re: ENOUGH! Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
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In article <1993Jan20.230616.25164@igor.tamri.com> jbass@igor.tamri.com (John Bass) writes:
<First, the group at UCB, Joltz, BSDI, and others all have acted
<out a plan to attempt to place the AT&T/USL UNIX product into the
<public domain. A conspiracy based in false "Robin Hood" ethics.
<
<...cry about freedom of expression while tring ... it's WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
<
<...productively used to advance the art with a new design. Their actions
<have been WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

	You seem a little bitter.

<I LOVE UNIX and have been a wild supporter for 17 years ... but it
<has it limits, and just as MS-DOS, those limits are preventing
<us from moving forward to better technologies.

	A wild supporter of that tired '60s design, eh?

<It's time we get out of the herd mentality and view the USL vs BSDI
<lawsuit as it really is ... a botched attempt by BSDI & Joltz to
<plagiarize UNIX. Let's not make folk heros of them over their petty
<actions. Lets focus instead on the other teams that are bringing us
<our future.

	Uh huh.  You, sir, are clueless.

<John Bass
<Consultant
<DMS Design

	- Kyle

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