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From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T or USL, and extrapolation
Message-ID: <1830@adagio.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:26:53 GMT
References: <1992Jul23.064028@eklektix.com>
Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany
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In article <1992Jul23.064028@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>Next...There's been a lot of extrapolation from what is known about the
>lawsuit to what it might mean.  People are off guessing how AT&T must think
>that nobody who's seen the inside of UNIX can do OS work without revealing
>trade secret and nobody's going to be able to work in the field any more...

To be fair, this was stated in a recent edition of Unigram-X. Of
course I can't find the !!(&*(&@ any more, but the gist was that an
AT&T spokesman said that nobody who had worked with Unix source could
produce unencumbered code.

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