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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth.se!news.kth.se!d86-emh From: d86-emh@dront.nada.kth.se (E Magnus Hulthen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <D86-EMH.92Aug6140257@dront.nada.kth.se> Date: 6 Aug 92 13:02:57 GMT References: <25138@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Aug3.143259.23897@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug4.212819.19417@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1992Aug05.150156.1019@NeoSoft.com> <1992Aug5.203748.16361@pony.Ingres.COM> Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM's message of 5 Aug 92 20:37:48 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: dront.nada.kth.se In article <1992Aug5.203748.16361@pony.Ingres.COM> jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger) writes: Karl Lehenbauer asks: > Why can't USL just buy a copy of BSD/386 and compare it themselves? Of course they can. No doubt they have. Just as they could and doubtless did ftp the NET2 distribution and examine it. Lets get real scary... What if they did ftp NET2, copied the code into their UNIX. And now claims that the BSDI code was written by USL. Thus the code written by BSDI is now "owned" by USL. Horrendus, but extremely plausible depending on how honest the intentions of USL are. /Magnus Hulthen d86-emh@nada.kth.se