* [TUHS] Mentally Contaminated [not found] <mailman.72.1483549752.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> @ 2017-01-04 17:22 ` David 2017-01-04 17:23 ` Clem Cole 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: David @ 2017-01-04 17:22 UTC (permalink / raw) [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 502 bytes --] > > 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] Mentally Contaminated 2017-01-04 17:22 ` [TUHS] Mentally Contaminated David @ 2017-01-04 17:23 ` Clem Cole 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Clem Cole @ 2017-01-04 17:23 UTC (permalink / raw) [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 791 bytes --] 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170104/1b5e86f1/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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