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From: ddb@vpnet.chi.il.us (dennis box)
Subject: Re: New group alt.suit.att-bsdi
Message-ID: <1992Jul28.044421.21002@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
References: <14s61qINN8da@cs.widener.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:44:21 GMT
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This group (alt.suit.att-bsdi) is supposed to winnow out megabytes 
of vituperous invective from the other groups.  MY worksite doesn't 
carry the alt.* hierarchy, but on the other hand, I can rant all I want 
here and its CLEAR that I speak for myself.  

So, has the letter writing campaign been organized yet?  To whom/where 
do we send such letters?

Its a new group, so I claim the privilege of tossing the first match: 

SUGGESTED ADVERTISING SLOGANS FOR AT&T:

	"Just sue it"

	"We don't innovate, we litigate"

	"Improving on our operating system.  Its just
	 not worth it"

	"Don't be one of the  Berkeley-eunichs"

	"AT&T unix. The right choice.  The ONLY choice"

 
The sad part is, I WANT to be sympathetic to AT&T.  I don't think they 
have been regulated fairly these last 15 years or so, but when they 
start suing BSDI and the MIT X-windows people I start wondering who
is next.  I read _The_C_Programming_Language_ by K&R a few years ago, 
do I owe them royalties if I write a program that is vaguely 
like anything in that book? It says right on the inside cover
"all rights reserved".  A corporate lawyer could get a lifetime of 
work out of phrases like that!


Dennis D. Box
"The difference between a carp and a lawyer is that one is a slimy, 
bottom feeding scum sucker and the other is a fish"