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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!alberta!canada!lyndon From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Summary: We don't give a shit; we're The Phone Company Message-ID: <84@ampr.ab.ca> Date: 23 Jul 92 07:30:52 GMT References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul21.122530.23497@resonex.com> Organization: Alberta Packet Radio Network Lines: 17 michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes: > How long has the NET2 distribution (and other AT&T-void sources) been > available? If this is indeed the first legal action that AT&T/USL has > taken, perhaps a point in BSDI's favor is that AT&T has waited until > now to protest. The NET2 distribution was no secret, nor were the > various projects which are based upon it (especially Jolitz's 386BSD > and BSDI's BSD/386). ftp.uu.net logs every transfer. Perhaps they could be persuaded to post a list of all the downloads of NET1 and NET2 that landed inside the ..att.com domain over the last couple of years. I suspect (and hope) that they are saving that information for the court case. --lyndon