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Xref: sserve comp.unix.questions:25697 comp.unix.bsd:4303 Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!utoday!wagner From: wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner) Subject: net.views---USL/BSDI lawsuit---a bonehead error---PLEASE READ! Organization: Open Systems Today Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 18:03:36 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug29.180336.10242@utoday.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Lines: 42 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 filing the suit? This question is being posted to gather responses for a regular opinion column in OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY called "net.views." By sending an E-mail reply to the above question, you are 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. Please include in your response your name, your employer or university, your job title or class standing (that is to say, if you identify yourself as a student, are you a freshman, sophomore, junior senior, graduate student?), and a telephone number where you can be reached during the daytime (overseas readers note: that's daytime in North America). -- Mitch Wagner, senior editor, Open Systems Today 2353 Massachusetts Ave. Suite 47, Cambridge, MA 02140 wagner@utoday.com CIS:70212,51 GEnie:MITCH.WAGNER For subscription information, please call 516/562-5882