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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!blaze.cs.jhu.edu!gauss!bogstad From: bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) Subject: Re: AT&T/USL CD-ROM Review Process Message-ID: <1992Dec13.183240.23944@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system) Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD References: <1992Dec12.233537.12931@netcom.com> <1ge0aaINNm4d@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Dec13.165418.5021@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:32:40 GMT Lines: 30 In article <1992Dec13.165418.5021@sbcs.sunysb.edu> sayre@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Johannes Sayre) writes: >In article <1992Dec13.021307.24664@lgc.com> danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson) writes: >>In article <1ge0aaINNm4d@neuro.usc.edu>, merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes: > >[...] > >>... It seems to me that this action would automatically involve the 386bsd >>users in the current USL/BSDI lawsuit > >... which would suit some people just fine. The success of UNIX, and the >particular way in which it succeeded, has made people in all sorts of fields >and organizations insecure and/or resentful. Bad advice will be generally >rampant in such times. I'ld like to know why people think that USL won't sue the Jolitzes if they win against BSDI. Is there something magically wrong that BSDI did that the Jolitzes didn't. (Okay, BSDI charges money.) Still, I'ld like 386BSD and the other freeware Unix clones to succeed to the extent that I can purchase support for them. I'm quite happy to hack on my own system for fun, but when I go to work it would be nice to be able to use the same system. Until I can safely trade some of my employers money for less hacking on the company time clock, I won't be able to do this. I can understand that this might not be the primary goal of either Jolitz (386BSD) or Linus (Linux); but I would hope that neither one of them would mind their software being used for something besides hacking. I predict that if it appears even remotely that 386BSD or Linux are starting to encroach on the commercial Unix market; USL will take any and all legal steps possible to stop their further distribution. Bill Bogstad