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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: George William Herbert's Challenge - Part 6 (The question of motive)
In-Reply-To: jbass@igor.tamri.com's message of Fri, 5 Feb 93 10:55:10 GMT
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Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 20:44:27 GMT
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Mr Bass,
Where you are utterly wrong is in your irresponsible and unfounded
allegation that CSRG staff acted without input and disclosure with
UCB's attornies and other management on the status of Net1 and Net2
code as it was developed and prior to release, which they most
certainly did. Your paranoid conspiracy theory only holds water if
others with no potential interest weren't involved in the decision
making process, and that is simply not the case...Strike one.
Further, CSRG coordinated on much of the source release with AT&T and
USL, and did so for as long as AT&T/USL was cooperative (up until a
few months before USL launched the suit.) Yes, AT&T/USL signed off on
a lot of the code, quite possibly a lot of the code you think you are
discovering as being in contention with your random walks.
I know of one major module which AT&T/USL signed off at least two
years before CSRG's release as ok to distribute. So maybe you find
this same module in your personal investigations and conclude that
proof of a violation has occurred? Hogwash, this doesn't even rate as
dilletente stuff. Unless you have the list of contended software you
are not even shooting in the dark, you just are in the dark...Strike
two.
Your innuendo about the motivations of this community and others is
unfounded tripe, much of it relies upon (among other things) your
reversing time lines and chronologies to make your point (e.g. the
implication that somehow Net1/Net2 post-dated intention to form BSDI.)
Strike three, yer out.
My advice: Give it up, you'd have to work hard at this point to merely
appear a fool.
--
-Barry Shein
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