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From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-Pete French.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
Message-ID: <1992Aug3.103210.4792@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Aug 92 10:32:10 GMT
References: <1992Jul30.173606.28357@kas.helios.mn.org>
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
Lines: 18
in article <1992Jul30.173606.28357@kas.helios.mn.org>, rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) says:
> 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.
Out of inteerst - hwt are the implications of this case for people outside the
US who have already got NET2 ? Can we quite happily hang on to it until At&T
start sueing in Europe, and if not then why not ?
-bat.
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