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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!decwrl!world!ksr!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI Message-ID: <14100@ksr.com> Date: 24 Jul 92 12:41:26 EDT References: <1992Jul22.221515.23550@tfs.com> <1992Jul23.173248@eklektix.com> <1992Jul23.180514.26289@cshl.org> <1992Jul24.004536@eklektix.com> Sender: news@ksr.com Lines: 12 rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes: >But what I meant is that USL has not (as far as I know) made any attempt to >stop the distribution of Net 2. Right now, this very instant, you can >reach out and touch any of several ftp sites to get a copy of Net 2. It's >pretty weird--that they're not complaining about the source of the unre- >stricted distribution (CSRG) but they complain about someone else (BSDI) >redistributing it. I don't claim I understand it; all I'm saying is that >it *appears* they don't want to restrict Net 2 _per_se_. It is possible that AT&T's *lawyers* do not understand the concept of "anonymous ftp", and when someone finally explains it to them, they'll shit bricks.