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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:6914 comp.org.eff.talk:9555 misc.int-property:623 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!hri.com!noc.near.net!news.centerline.com!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!ajk.tele.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!usenet From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.int-property Subject: Re: Rumour: UCB considering dropping defence of BSD Keywords: UCB defence Message-ID: <1992Oct21.201355.10322@nntp.hut.fi> Date: 21 Oct 92 20:13:55 GMT References: <1c3q1jINNoah@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) Nntp-Posting-Host: laphroaig.cs.hut.fi In article <1c3q1jINNoah@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>, comrade@uniwa (Peter Cooper) writes: >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? Even if USL convinces U.S. ftp sites to stop distributing by intimidation and threats of legal action, I'm not sure it would succeed with sites outside USA. It could be that it goes like software patents - people outside USA will be able to distribute and use more freely. Then again, as we know the U.S. government is using it's international political and economic power to get wider patent and copyright laws implemented outside USA (as well as inside, bypassing congressional power), so it might be that the rest of us are losers in the game as well. //Jyrki