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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 28 Jan 1996 01:17:03 GMT Organization: CATENA Enterprise Technologies Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4eeiqf$68f@diablo.cet.co.jp> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4dg4uq$dl2@sungy.Germany.Sun.COM> <4dh5ab$58b@cypress.nwnet.net> <4dhfjn$4rl@park.uvsc.edu> <4digkr$83u@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <4e6o44$4rd@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: a08m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2097 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2249 comp.unix.solaris:58100 comp.unix.aix:69380 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) wrote: [snip] >About the same time use of published Net/2 sources became >"Trade Secret" infringement, when the law clearly states that >once published a trade secret is no longer protected. > >Note that I did not say "guilty of infringing an interface >copyright", I said liable for a suit... ie: open to legal >intimidation tactics that have a historically high probability >of being used. > >Even today, I'd still stand witness (along side DMR, who made >the offer in one of his rare public postings) that the Net/2 >code does not contain any intellectual property belonging to >USL. We all know UCB wimped out because it would have cost >more money to fight and win than to settle. To me, Novell symbolized the end of the legal intimidation era over SYSV and BSD. Does SCO have any history of legal bullying? -- Mike Hancock michaelh@cet.co.jp