From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 14 13:43:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA24796 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:43:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guarany.cpd.unb.br (guarany.cpd.unb.br [164.41.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24666 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from antares.linf.unb.br by guarany.cpd.unb.br (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA23057; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 17:17:08 -0300 Received: from pegasus by antares.linf.unb.br (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08044; Wed, 14 Aug 96 17:26:13 WST From: e8917523@antares.linf.unb.br (Daniel C. Sobral) Message-Id: <9608142126.AA08044@antares.linf.unb.br> Subject: Re: ISP's are being sued To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 17:27:14 -0400 (WST) In-Reply-To: from "Michael Dillon" at Aug 14, 96 09:27:42 am Disclaimer: Klaatu Barada Nikto! X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Dillon writes: > > >Netscape has sent requests for payment to a number of ISP's > >and told them they had to pay for all copies they ever distributed. > > The above 4 lines come from a different source than my info and in fact > from a person who should be even closer to this stuff. So it looks like a > LOT of ISP's are going to receive some big bills and either pay them or go > broke. The prices for legal copies of Netscape are not that bad if you go > to CCSWEB, Usfulware or Intercon. Interesting. Some ISPs here have contracts stating it is the responsibility of the client to register any of the softwares (given to them by the ISP) they use. Were this the case of the sued ISPs? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) e8917523@linf.unb.br "Master, do we seek victory in contention?" "Seek rather not to contend, for without contention there can be neither victory nor defeat."