1 Sep
2024
1 Sep
'24
4:49 p.m.
On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 5:59 AM Rich Salz <rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The phone number 1-800-ITS-UNIX, didn't help.
But ATT sued the Regents of
California first because of UCBs net releases. And while there were many of
the same principles, the two lawsuits were different.
At&t did not have much choice. Unix was protected by trade secret, and
once it was available, the trade secret was gone. Rick Adams asked a lawyer
if somebody posted it to Usenet by uploading it from a phone booth. Would
happen, The lawyers gulped and said it's available now.
Trade Secret is one of the big reasons there was a preliminary ruling in
the UCB/ATT lawsuit that 32V had lost its copyright protection. It had been
distributed outside of AT&T to a large degree without the Trade Secret
warning. It's why all the 4BSD releases are publicly available now.
Warner