[TUHS] Mentally Contaminated
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Thu Jan 5 03:23:42 AEST 2017
Yes, i have one somewhere
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:22 PM David <david at kdbarto.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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
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