Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mstan!frank
From: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Suing a Virus Creator
Summary: A Waste of Time, Effort, and Money
Message-ID: <112@hudson.Morgan.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 88 14:50:26 GMT
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Reply-To: frank@Morgan.COM (Frank Wortner)
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I believe that anyone suing anyone over this is a waste of time, effort,
and money.  rtm has little money (at least not the millions that various
parties are likely to sue for); there is nothing to be gained by draining
Cornell, Berkeley, etc.; DEC, Sun and other vendors might be negligent, but
they can point the fingers at (and sic their lawyers on) most of the other
parties.  End result: everyone loses, and a lot of resources (mostly legal)
are wasted.
-- 
						Frank

"Computers are mistake amplifiers."