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From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson)
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 22:22:37 GMT
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In article <HALEY.93Feb23030107@husc11.harvard.edu>, haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:
>
> I for one will put up two thumbs for 386bsd:
> 1. Mine has never crashed, (though it has slowed down to a
> standstill trying to nroff large files... a problem with having 4 megs
> and a smallish swap space I suspect, not to mention running a known to
> be buggy version of groff...)
> 2. The future of BSDI is patchy, unless my info is way old.
> They may not get nailed for copyright infringement (I hope not, since
> that could cast a nasty light on anyone using anything derived from
> NET-2), But I would bet they get hurt from the trademark suit, for
> which there is apparently physical evidence. Pretty stupid, really.
>
Asbestos suit on :-(
We're USl, you stole our code - we can prove this.
You want to look at the proof? No! That would take
all the fun out of it! Nice people!
Does anyone know if USL has ever said 'Look at file X in BSD and file Y in whatever'?
Suit off and run away!
> BTW what is the latest on all that? Any change from The completion of
> the Sales of USL to Novell?
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