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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!piggy!jim
From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
Message-ID: <jim.712278251@piggy>
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
References: <118@netwrk.UUCP> <1992Jul27.140005.23776@ryptyde.cts.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:04:11 GMT
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In <1992Jul27.140005.23776@ryptyde.cts.com> scott@ryptyde.cts.com (Scott McClure) writes:
>I don't think that it would do much, considering the break up of AT&T.
>USL is no longer directly connected to it (at least, that's what I've 
>heard).  You'd be bashing seperate company.

AT&T is still the majority owner of USL though.  I believe they own
55% of USL, although that figure could just be my imagination.  In
this case, any harm against AT&T would cause them to exert pressure
on USL to change.  And any harm against USL would mean less profit
for AT&T.  Sounds pretty well connected to me.

>We need to find a way to bash USL directly for this outrage.

More directly, I am not upgrading from Esix 4.0.3a to Esix 4.0.4.
I don't know how much in the way of licensing USL loses from this,
but it's probably substantial.

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