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From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples)
Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit
Message-ID: <1992Aug5.003803.28740@engr.uark.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 92 00:38:03 GMT
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zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:

>In article <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>>  It seems to me that the university was not really trying to solve the
>>issue when they refused to let a mutually agreed third party examing the
>>whole body of code. By insisting on snapshots they give the appearance
>>of trying to hide something, even if they're not.
>>
>>-- 
>>bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
>
>
>As AT&T made the complaint with the explicit "you're using AT&T code/trade
>secrets" it is surely reasonable to ask that they specify which parts of the
>code contains the infringments.  Otherwise it's a fishing expedition.
>

   I just finished reading the ammended complaint that added the Regents
to the suit and from what I got out of it USL is not claiming that there
are SPECIFIC PARTS that contain infingements, but that NET2, as a whole,
is an infringement.  So, go figure.....

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