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From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Future at Berzerkeley
Message-ID: <1625@iesd.dk>
Date: 1 Apr 89 02:35:00 GMT
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In-reply-to: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL's message of 31 Mar 89 09:30:32 GMT


In article <9957@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:

>In article <4814@macom1.UUCP> larry@macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek) writes:
>>My question is, since Berkeley has been paying licsence fees to
>>AT&T for portions of their code, will AT&T pay Berkeley for
>>portions of their code included in SVR4?  If not, then will AT&T
>>price SVR4 so that users are not paying for portions of code that
>>AT&T did not buy or develop?
>
>...
>The implied accusation of theft that lies behind your questions
>is, to the best of my knowledge (and I do have some inside
>knowledge) unfounded and demands an apology.

Very good. Don't ever use provoking or humorous language. Doug does
not like that, you see. And he's always *so* polite :-).

Lighten up, Doug. Read the question as "will i have to pay $$ to get
something from ATT that I could have for free from Berkeley?". We all
appreciate your help and information, but try not to throw rocks at
people all the time, OK?

/Lars
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Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci., University of Aalborg
Strandvejen 19, DK-9000 Aalborg, DENMARK
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
			-- Arthur C. Clarke