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From: mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Is HDB UUCP in the public domain or who owns it.
Message-ID: <3989@anomaly.sbs.com>
Date: 22 Oct 90 01:58:09 GMT
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Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI 02917
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wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul) writes:

>I am afraid that is a misconception. About three years ago there was a
>tar of early HDB source code available from the Microport BBS, which
>someone had sent to them and represented as PD. However, if one looked
>at the files, they were obviously AT&T source, and when I and several
>others pointed this out to the Customer Service people at Microport,
>the tar file disappeared from the BBS. It wasn't their code, it wasn't
>P.D., and it should never have been on the BBS in the first place. 

The misconception carries on thru today, even. Someone was "kind enough"
to donate the source code to our XENIX archives, who was also under
this impression (that the source was a "port" offered at one time by
Microport.) Luckily, several users were kind enough to inform us about
the true nature of this archive; we removed it immediately, and forwarded
the coorespondence we received to the donor so that he could do the same.

But, it does make one wonder how many systems out there have a copy of
this archive sitting on their system, available for users to download,
because this story has been propagated.

MD
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