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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
Message-ID: <1992Aug4.165402.891@news.eng.convex.com>
Date: 4 Aug 92 16:54:02 GMT
References: <1992Aug01.141903.20814@NeoSoft.com> <5243@shum.huji.ac.il> <PHR.92Aug4093951@soda.berkeley.edu>
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>From the keyboard of phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin):
:In article <5243@shum.huji.ac.il> allon@batata.huji.ac.il (Allon Herman) writes:
:	   I'm sorry that I have to raise this issue at all and
:   especially on this list. I'm not really going to write about AT&T
:   vs. BSDI etc. at all. Anyway to get to my point, Karl Lehenbauer
:   signed article 3054 with a slogan of Adolph Hitler: "What luck for
		   ^^^^
:   rulers that men do not think".
:
:1. AT&T *are* the rulers in this situation, in that it is they who are
:trying to exploit the principle that article 3054 quoted.  
					      ^^^^

Citing local article numbers conveys zero information.  Please use
message-id's, especially for those impoverished folks not running
truly threaded newsreaders.  I believe the message-id in question 
was <1992Aug01.141903.20814@NeoSoft.com>.

--tom

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