Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 16:13:28 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating toBSDsettlement agreement Message-ID: <3950.1056032008@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:33:32 %2B0930." <20030619090332.GO93137@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In message <20030619090332.GO93137@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >>> I suppose you mean John Lions. >> >> Yes. I always spell his name wrong. >> >>> He got into a lot of trouble for that, and I doubt he would have >>> got away with it in the USA. >> >> Really? Can you point to the signed non-disclosure agreement >> that he violated in order to publish his commentary? The U.S. >> was not nearly as anal about this stuff until the 1980's. > >Things have got worse, yes. But certainly there was enough trouble in >the 70s. Peter Salus book "A Quarter Century of UNIX" mentioned that he got in trouble and that AT&T stopped the distribution (to the extent that they could). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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