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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <7044@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Aug 92 14:42:42 GMT
References: <1992Aug1.020513.14170@plts.uucp>
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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>                                    According 
>to USL, the school effectively rejected a proposal for a full 
>comparison of Berkeley versus USL code by unbiased third parties 
>by demanding that the evaluation be limited only to USL-specified 
>snapshots and by selecting as arbiters for its side members of 
>the Computer Systems Research Group whose credentials, USL 
>claims, were already tainted. 

The restriction to snapshots is perfectly reasonable.

If USL "knows for a fact" that NET2 contains proprietary AT&T code,
they should say what this code is.  Otherwise, they're just on a
fishing expedition.

>USL and has created a cadre of naive tech weinees ready to form a 
>lynch mob.

Unbiased reporting strikes again.

-- jd