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From: gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T amended complaint available on uunet
Date: 3 Aug 1992 09:49:28 GMT
Organization: Dis-
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Sender: gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert)
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Summary: They're up to something else, too...

In article phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
>For those that are interested, the AT&T/USL First Amended Complaint
>against BSDI and the UC Regents has recently appeared on
>ftp.uu.net:vendor/bsdi/usl/920724.complaint.Z.
>
>The new complaint names all the UC regents (individually), outlines a
>fairly lurid conspiracy theory about CSRG purposely passing AT&T
>secrets to BSDI, and alleges that Net/2 contains AT&T copyrighted code
>but does *not* say what specific code is supposedly copied.  It asks for
>injunctions to stop BSDI and UC from distributing Net/2 derived code.

	Rather scarily, it also mentions but does not quite explain how
is relevant the clause that lets AT&T/USL take back the rights of the
University of California's right to use UNIX.
	
	I also would like to see two things: one, the USL evidence that
there's copied or significantly derived code in Net/2 (files & line # please)
and two, evidence that CSRG people conspired to illegally give BSDI
something that they couldn't get publically.  I can't comment on the
first one lacking locations and both sets of code (Do I really want to
look at AT&T code enough to compare them after the taint claims that
have come up?  8-P ).  The second one, however, looks sorta tenuous...
BSDI didn't start doing things, as far as I can tell, until after
Net/2 appeared; Kolstad, if I remember right, says that they got their
copy of Net/2 off uunet.  There's obviously an incestuous relationship
between some people from CSRG and BSDI... not that we didn't already know
that.  It was pretty apparent at the winter Usenix.  Was it illegal?
Didn't look that way; better have good evidence.  Was it immoral?
Well, since CSRG was disintegrating anyway 8-(, why not?  I don't like
it going away, but they need to make money and if it's not CSRG paying
for thier living, someone else has to.  *shrug*  I just want to see
the evidence.


-george william herbert
gwh@soda.berkeley.edu  gwh@lurnix.com  herbert@uchu.isu92.ac.jp until 28 aug
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Disclaimer: I sure as hell am not talking for the University or its regents
or any other officials or groups.  Sorry 8-) .