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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6836 ; Fri, 15 Jan 93 10:36:46 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.eff.talk:11550 comp.unix.bsd:9992 comp.unix.wizards:28213 comp.org.usenix:3082 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!news!rlk From: rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings... Date: 15 Jan 93 22:23:13 Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <RLK.93Jan15222313@underprize.think.com> References: <BZS.93Jan14203519@world.std.com> <BETSYS.93Jan15143516@ra.cs.umb.edu> <1j7f5rINNqvn@ftp.UU.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: underprize.think.com In-reply-to: sef@Kithrup.COM's message of 15 Jan 1993 14:51:39 -0800 In article <1j7f5rINNqvn@ftp.UU.NET> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: In article <BETSYS.93Jan15143516@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes: >(4) preliminarily enjoining and restraining BSDI, its >officers, agents, employees, servants, and all persons >in active concert or participation with them, from >employing, authorizing or otherwise allowing any person >who has had access to UNIX operating system source code >or any works, notes, memoranda, or other records, >copied from, based upon, or derived from such software, >disclosed to such person or his employer in confidence, >to participate on behalf of BSDI in the development of >source code for a multi-user computer operating system, >during the pendency of this action; The fun part about that, which I don't know how many people have recognized or admitted, is that the Bach abd BSD books fall under the category of "works, noted, memoranda" "copied from, based upon, or derived from" the USL code. It does say "disclosed to such person or his employer in confidence", which would seem to rule that out. Nonetheless, this *is* nasty... -- ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz <rlk@think.com> 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)234-2116 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net