Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating
toBSDsettlement agreement
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Jun 19 07:13:37 PDT 2003
In message <20030619090332.GO93137 at wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey"
writes:
>>> I suppose you mean John Lions.
>>
>> Yes. I always spell his name wrong.
>>
>>> He got into a lot of trouble for that, and I doubt he would have
>>> got away with it in the USA.
>>
>> Really? Can you point to the signed non-disclosure agreement
>> that he violated in order to publish his commentary? The U.S.
>> was not nearly as anal about this stuff until the 1980's.
>
>Things have got worse, yes. But certainly there was enough trouble in
>the 70s.
Peter Salus book "A Quarter Century of UNIX" mentioned that he got
in trouble and that AT&T stopped the distribution (to the extent
that they could).
--
Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
More information about the freebsd-hackers
mailing list