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From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi
Subject: net.views -- USL/BSDI lawsuit -- a bonehead error -- PLEASE READ!
Message-ID: <1992Aug28.205255.10541@utoday.com>
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:52:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Open Systems Today
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Due to a stupid user error on my part, I've accidently deleted the
responses I've received to the net.views question about the USL/BSDI
lawsuit.
If you sent me a response to the question, please re-send it.
If you haven't responded yet, but have been meaning to, here's your
chance to get it in.
Feel free to include whatever flames you like about bonehead
journalists who fail to maintain a responsible policy of backing up
their important data---heaven knows I've been beating myself up about
this.
As a reminder, the original net.views request follows:
Unix Systems Laboratories recently sued software company BSDI and the
Regents of 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 following the suit?
This question is being posted to gather responses for a regular
opinion column in OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY called "net.views."
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granting permission for us to publish your response. A compilation of the
responses to this post will be posted here about two weeks from today.
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identify yourself as a student, are you a freshman, sophomore, junior
senior, graduate student?), and a telephone number where you
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North America).
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