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From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD demon?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 00:53:42 GMT
Organization: The Backbone Cabal
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Sender: wayne@backbone (Wayne Schlitt)
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References: <1993Aug18.082118.726@resonex.com> <19185@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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In-Reply-To: jtkohl@zk3.dec.com's message of 19 Aug 1993 13: 04:24 GMT
In article <24vtoo$uo@jac.nuo.dec.com> jtkohl@zk3.dec.com (John Kohl) writes:
> In article <19185@blue.cis.pitt.edu> tml@pitt.edu (Tom Link) writes:
>
> > The same suit asks that the BSD code be removed from System V.
>
> Well, not quite. It asks that USL/whoever update their documentation
> and publicity to give proper credit, and *failing that*, to revoke the
> license. [ ... ]
The suit also says that since UCB is a poor university that isn't
making any money off of this code, it has very little leverage to
_force_ USL to comply unless it is given a restraining order. Yes, I
can see it now, all versions of Unix are forbidden to be sold until
people update the doc. I bet you would see new releases from every
vendor as quick, if not quicker than after the internet worm... :->
(And no, IF this happened, I don't think it would be good for Unix.
That kind of thing might even make the national nightly news and give
Unix more bad press and doubts in peoples minds. Still, the thought
of all those companies scrambling to update the doc kind of warms your
heart... )
-wayne
--
The Average Person's Axioms of First Order Predicate Logic:
(A => B) => (B => A)
(There exists) x A(x) => (For all) x A(x)
(A => C) & (B => C) => (A => B) --Warren Vonroeschlaub