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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!uunet!world!ksr!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <14488@ksr.com> Date: 5 Aug 92 11:39:08 EDT References: <45961@shamash.cdc.com> <25138@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> <5486@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> <1992Aug5.003803.28740@engr.uark.edu> Sender: news@ksr.com Lines: 14 tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples) writes: >>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..... Ah, so they are claiming that the trade secret being stolen is the *concept* of a "UNIX operating system". Well, (to combine one of my favorite ancient cartoon catch-phrases with a more modern catch-phrase that I actually can't stand) "dat sounds logical....NOT!"