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From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI & Our Retaliation
In-Reply-To: uekleinf@mcs.Drexel.edu's message of 29 Jul 92 13:29:27 GMT
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Date: 29 Jul 92 09:20:24
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[Erik (uekleinf@mcs.drexel.edu)]
>     Now there is an idea.  You want to start getting noticed, pull any PD
> software out there that you originally made, restate the copyright, and put
> it back out on the net.  AT&T should really start getting the idea when they
> have to start paying for everything or risk Copyright Infringment.

No worries there.  AT&T had (til they gave it to USL) a rather bad case of NIH.
I wrote a PD-ish "cron" replacement in 1986 and though I tried very hard to get
AT&T to take it and blow away the ridiculous one they still ship in their
latest SysV releases, they politely declined.

So did every other vendor I offered it to, because they already had the SYSV
one and they didn't want to become incompatible with it.  (A pox on NIH!)
--
Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	
Palo Alto, California, USA         	"Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
<vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie		they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul@vix.com>     vixie!paul		your own path, and stay on it."  -me