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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage!sphinx!pta!yarra!bohra.cpg.oz.au!als From: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Aug2.115421.20230@bohra.cpg.oz.au> Date: 2 Aug 92 11:54:21 GMT References: <1992Jul21.104627.3353@mel.dit.csiro.au> <1992Jul21.131433.16450@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Jul30.173606.28357@kas.helios.mn.org> Organization: Computer Power Software Lines: 33 rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes: >In article <1992Jul21.131433.16450@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes: >=In article <1992Jul21.104627.3353@mel.dit.csiro.au> smart@wanda.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Robert Smart) writes: >= >=: This is insanity. Surely this will be thrown out of court. >=Who is going to defend NET/2? >= > Just to remind the non-US audience, this legal action is being > done in the US so by definition of the US legal system NOTHING > is insane or absurd because the US "legal" system IS insane and > absurd. This comes from lawyers controlling the legal, judicial, > legistative and executive branches of the US government, i.e. a > complete monopoly, to make the government and law infinitely complex > and absurd. > Be glad you don't have to deal with our excuse for a legal system... > -Rob Unfortunately it does affect us in the outside world. The US government attempts to force its ideas on copyright law and patents on other countries using all the arm-twisting means at its disposal. By simply banning via court action the sale of any software in the US that does not comply with US legal decisions like "look and feel" the world's software market is seriously distorted along US lines. -- Anthony Shipman "You've got to be taught before it's too late, CP Software Export Pty Ltd, Before you are six or seven or eight, 19 Cato St., East Hawthorn, To hate all the people your relatives hate, Melbourne, Australia, 3121 You've got to be carefully taught." R&H