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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!unixhub!falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!ralph From: ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI Message-ID: <4825@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: 23 Jul 92 22:50:26 GMT References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> <1992Jul23.204845.28978@ddsw1.mcs.com> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: falcon.slac.stanford.edu In article <1992Jul23.204845.28978@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes (abbreviated): >I think we should organize a boycott of AT&T products and services, and >tell 'em why. This means that MCI gets my long-distance service. I (as a private individual) am already boycotting AT&T (due to XWindow backing store). My long-distance carrier is MCI. The phone at home is made by Panasonic. I have no plans to purchase phone equipment. I could try to steer purchases at work away from AT&T, but that would be a horrible crime of tampering with Federal Government Purchasing. Note: our group does purchase about $3K of phone service from AT&T per month, and we are about to add a satellite international link which will cost close to $10K/month, also from AT&T; in both cases there is no competition to AT&T, so there are no other options. I could start boycotting all Un*x systems (since they all eventually go back to an AT&T license), but that would be a very unreasonable hardship (I would get no work done any longer). So the question is: What can I do (as a private individual) to help BSDI, and intellectual freedom? Looks pretty bleak, doesn't it. The only option is to directly donate money to BSDI, or (equivalent) buy a copy of BSDI's Unix which I don't need right now. This is not a rhetorical question (if there is something one can do to help, I'd like to know), although it really looks like there is nothing one can do. Short of tossing Molotov-cocktails into the nearest AT&T facility (which again is not suggested and a crime, for good reason). -- Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Stanford Linear Accelerator Center RALPH@SLACVM.BITNET M.S. 95, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309 (415)926-2701 My opinion. This is not SLAC, Stanford U, or the US DoE speaking. Just me.