leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

Madika Vuite v.lalrindika at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 06:32:51 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Don Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is incorrect, Julian? I interviewed both Kirk McK and Berkeley's
> chief legal beagle several years ago. If I'm incorrect, I'd prefer to
> get it right.
>
> I even bought Kirk's video after a FBSD convention a long time back.
> He was drinking beer by the pitcher, so I'm sure he was more
> forthcoming than usual.
>
> I also was the one who orchestrated the Darwin press release when
> working as a stringer with Bob Bruce's WC-CDROM, so I do have a little
> history here.
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >> From:         Don Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com>
> >
> > 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
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> -- Don Wilde
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