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From: mgrjtb@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.161100.24696@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:11:00 GMT
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In article <1992Jul21.064525.19093@resonex.com> michael@resonex.com (Michael  
Bryan) writes:
> In article <1992Jul21.030532.10307@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric  
Fagan) writes:
> >In other words (potentially *wrong* words, mind you, since I'm not a
> >lawyer), *anything* based on the Net/2 tape, according to USL, requires an
> >AT&T/USL license!! (EEEEP!)
> >
> >Comments, anyone?
> 
> Imminent death of free-UN*X systems predicted...

Is BSD net/2 the only free real UN*X?!!!  Horse hockey....

Linux is almost ready for version 1.0 in about a year and a half...and you  
predict death of free UN*X's?!!!!

With Mach and Hurd, I was planning for the death of unrealistically high priced  
UN*X's.  
 
> -- 
> Michael Bryan        michael@resonex.com                     |     ,_,
> "Pretenders I meet are making a trail along the way.         |    /oo \
> They say that they know how to show me a path to guide my    |    <>__|
> way to truth..." --- David York, "The Quiet of a Candle"     |    |  U|

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         Joseph T. Batt - deranged CS undergrad...

     mgrjtb@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu = &(Joseph T. Batt);
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