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From: olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Should I get the AT&T source?
Message-ID: <1992Aug4.043102.18615@xn.ll.mit.edu>
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
References: <1992Jul27.230708.17974@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 04:31:02 GMT
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ben@rex.chb.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
>The place where I work can get the AT&T souce for like $200 (.edu).
>However, I don't want to be limited by this. Will I be prevented
>from writing in an OS in the future (theoretically?)
USL apparently thinks you will. In the amended complaint, USL
asks for an injunction
(d) restraining BSDI, its officers, agents, employees,
servants, and all persons in active concert or participation
with them, from employing, authorizing or otherwise allowing
any person who has had access to UNIX(R) operating system source
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
code or any works, notes, memoranda, or other records, copied
from, based upon, or derived from such software, disclosed to
such person or his employer in confidence, to participate on
behalf of BSDI in the development of source code for a multiuser
computer operating system.
If you have seen any proprietary UNIX source code, or even had access to
it without seeing it, then USL apparently thinks it owns your soul (at
least as far as writing multiuser operating systems is concerned).