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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!uniwa!nfm From: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Rumour: UCB considering dropping defence of BSD Date: 21 Oct 1992 22:38:43 +0800 Organization: The University of Westrn Australia Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1c3q1jINNoah@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au Summary: Apparently, UCB are considering the abandonment of their defence of BSD Keywords: UCB defence Followups-To: alt.suit.att-bsdi I have heard a rumour today from a foafoaf (so some disbelief is acceptable) that UCB is considering dropping their defence of BSD. This perhaps explains why they have discontinued the distribution of NET/2, and have solicited Real Mail (tm) from organisations to explain to them why they should not drop their defence of the Lawsuit. If this occurs, what happens to 386BSD (blessed be the names of Bill and Lynne) or BSDI? Surely neither of these two have financial resources to back a long-term legal seige? Will ATT (or USL or whatever they call themselves these days) be able to yank all copies of NET/2 or BSD from the net? What happens to people who already have copies of these sets of code? Peter -- email: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au snail: Peter Cooper fax: +61 9 380 1041 Guild of Undergraduates phone: +61 9 380 3929 University of Western Australia "It was the banana that did it!" - Julia Marley