4 Jan
2017
4 Jan
'17
11:23 p.m.
Yes, i have one somewhere
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:22 PM David <david(a)kdbarto.org> wrote:
Wasn’t there a Usenix button with the phrase “Mentally Contaminated” on it?
I’m sure I’ve got it around here somewhere. Or is my memory suffering from
parity errors?
David
What made Linux happen was the BSDi/UCB vs AT&T
case. At the time, a
lot of hackers (myself included) thought the case was
about *copyright*.
It was not, it was about *trade secret* and the ideas
around UNIX. *
i.e.*
folks like, we "mentally contaminated" with
the AT&T Intellectual
Property.