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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:04:18 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9207231504.20@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <ROB.92Jul20165225@hanalei.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul21.030532.10307@kithrup.COM> <1821@adagio.UUCP> <14kcimINNcr5@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> Lines: 32 In article <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> paigen@tfs.com (David Paigen) writes: >wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: > >>In article <1821@adagio.UUCP> grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes: >>>.... >>>The real issue here is, of course, not the source. AT&T must know >>>about Bill Jolitz; according to the text here, he's guilty of the same >>>`crime'.... > >[deleted] > >>Please refrain from using inflammatory words such as "crime" with respect to >>386BSD and the developers, as we are not involved in this matter. We have >>no relationship with BSDi or CSRG, nor do we condone the actions of any >>party involved in this dispute. > >I think you have missed the point, Bill. If BSDI is guilty of the 'crime' >of developing an OS from the NET 2 tape, so are you. I do not condone >the classification of BSDI's actions as a crime, nor do I condone the >actions of AT&T. > >I think someone should give BSDI a medal for doing their work. More to >the point, we should start contributing to the "BSDI legal defense fund." I don't think that AT&T really wants to win. They just want to tie BSDI up in court, and make them spend some money, while they rush Destiny out the door. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP