From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:23:42 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Mentally Contaminated In-Reply-To: <96E8D150-E30F-4AC5-BEA1-C7DDC000D22A@kdbarto.org> References: <96E8D150-E30F-4AC5-BEA1-C7DDC000D22A@kdbarto.org> Message-ID: Yes, i have one somewhere On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:22 PM David 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: