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Xref: sserve comp.sys.sun.admin:3909 comp.unix.admin:6524 comp.unix.solaris:9 comp.unix.bsd:2392 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!mips!atha!canada!lyndon From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.solaris,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 Keywords: AT&T 'Death Star' rises over BSDI's horizon [Tel. 1-800-800-4BSD Message-ID: <89@ampr.ab.ca> Date: 23 Jul 92 19:58:17 GMT Article-I.D.: ampr.89 References: x <l6nkifINNjoo@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul22.103717.17224@uropax.contrib.de> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: BOYCOTT AT&T Lines: 15 src@uropax.contrib.de (Heiko Blume) writes: > that would mean, that anyone who has ever read c header files > on a AT&T UNIX system, which are 'licensed material', is > him/herself contaminated for his lifetime? that would certainly > be absurd. It's worse than that. Pretty near every posting to comp.sources.* contains code copied directly from System V. Do you see the line 'exit 0' at the end of each posting. It's obviously been lifted directly from the source for /bin/true. Death of the Net Predicted. Kill the lawyers. Boycott AT&T.