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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!atha!canada!lyndon From: lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Is AT&T listening?... Summary: Yes, and they're still a bunch of twits. Message-ID: <97@ampr.ab.ca> Date: 24 Jul 92 17:40:08 GMT References: <1992Jul23.200547.22246@cs.rose-hulman.edu> Organization: Boycott AT&T! Lines: 21 mgrjtb@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu writes: > I have seen people from apple.com very active in the Linux newsgroup, which > would seem like treason to me, and ADM and Intel people in the comp.sys.intel > group, but we haven't heard from AT&T here. > AT&T, are you listening? Yes, they're listening. cjc@ulysses.att.com was kind enough to point out that one of my previous postings about the copying of /bin/true source code was incorrect. It is in fact, as he stated in e-mail, the BSD version of /bin/true that contains 'echo 0'. The System V version of /bin/true instead contains five lines of copyright notice, one line of version control information, and a colon. What really impresses me about System V's version of /bin/true is that it only took them four revision of the code to get a single character shell script right. Now THAT's the sort of intellectual property I would hire a building full of lawyers to defend! AT&T: just say NO.