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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!agate!ocf.berkeley.edu!alanc From: alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alan Coopersmith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon, others coming soon... Message-ID: <14i6frINN2ck@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 21 Jul 92 23:26:51 GMT References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> Organization: U.C. Bezerkeley Overloaded Computing Facility Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: ocf.berkeley.edu In article <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes: )On a final note, BSDI's own press release states that: ) ) Although USL has not sued the University of California, we expect that ) USL (or its parent, ATT) will threaten to review or withdraw research ) grants made to any university or research institution using or ) distributing software based on NET2 ... Hopefully, if this happens, the Universities are willing to play hardball as well, and move all their long distance services to other carriers and stop buying all AT&T products (telephones & computers alike...) [If AT&T is that worried about everyone having a license, why haven't they gotten uunet/dec/etc. to pull the Net-2 sources out of the public archives?] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alan Coopersmith Internet: alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley Bitnet: alanc@UCBOCF.BITNET