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From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
Subject: net.views question -- the USL/BSDI lawsuit
Organization: Open Systems Today
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 92 17:21:06 GMT
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Keywords: editorial,column,intellectual,property,litigation,lawyers
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	Unix System Laboratories recently sued software company BSDI
	and the University of California at Berkeley, charging that 
	BSDI's commercial Unix workalike and UCB's free software 
	violated USL's intellectual property rights. Was USL justified
	in filing the suit?

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opinion column in OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY called "net.views." 

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