From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 28 17:06:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2D5106566C for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:06:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1448FC15 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:06:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A7054.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.112.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8SH6dNt054057; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:06:39 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8SH6Tn9005329; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:06:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8SH8xsG070888; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:09:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200909281709.n8SH8xsG070888@fire.js.berklix.net> To: dwilde1@gmail.com From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:08:24 CDT." Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:08:59 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:06:42 -0000 Hi, > From: Don Wilde Don Wilde wrote: > http://www.engineeringjobfuture.com/articles/leverage/open-source-software Article contains "The lawsuit was bitterly contested, but finally resolved. Everything developed before 1970 was declared by a judge to be open forever more, and everything developed after that was AT&T's property." False. I stopped reading at that point, after all, the journalist was probably just winging it, after a few emails to people who read the activity at the time (inc many of us doubtless). The people who know Most about the UCB Lite agreement, won't speak much anyway - they signed non disclosures. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asciiribbon.org Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/