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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ckd From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! In-Reply-To: mike@pacsoft.com's message of 23 Jul 92 17:05:18 GMT Message-ID: <CKD.92Jul24121821@loiosh.eff.org> Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: loiosh.eff.org Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central References: <1992Jul22.163407.10823@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1331@pacsoft.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:20:44 GMT Lines: 13 Mike> == Mike Stefanik <mike@pacsoft.com> Mike> Of course. Since USL has it's fingers in (nearly) all of the Mike> pies, they really don't care who you buy the end product from ... Mike> they *are* getting a piece of the action with every sale. Except, of course, for sales made by companies that don't have to pay USL for a license...like BSDI. (Gee, how coincidental...) -- Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665 ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155