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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!unislc!erc From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <QUANSTRO.92Jul21140234@lars.StOlaf.edu> Message-ID: <1992Jul21.235727.4693@unislc.uucp> Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:57:27 GMT Lines: 24 quanstro@lars.StOlaf.edu (goon) writes: : Imminent death of free-UN*X systems predicted... : : Wouldn't that be great! : : Imagine being creative and trying to sythesize all that's been learned : from Unix (R) in the last twenty years and actually trying to break : out of the YAU (yet another Uni*) mold. . . And AT&T would probably sue you, claiming that you got the ideas from any exposure that you have had to any UNIX code derived (or claim to be derived) from AT&T "proprietary" code. The bottom line is that, if AT&T wins, any piece of code that any programmer has written or will write that contains even the slightest hint of containing "intellectual property" of AT&T (such as "for(i=0;i<XYZ; i++)") will be claimed by AT&T as derivitive of that so-called "intellectual property". Oops ... I just did it, didn't I? :) -- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com <-- preferred email address! "In wildness is the preservation of the world." - Henry David Thoreau ** Member, Linux port team - uucp division ** :) 801/269-8125