🚀 go-pugleaf

Thor Lancelot Simon (lancelot@spock.uucp) wrote:

: I can do you one better.  I've had access to AT&T Unix sources for at least four
: years.  I've examined fairly closely, and at times modified, bits-n-pieces of
: the V7 and 32V kernel source.  I've also worked with the 4.3 kernel guts, though
: not as much.  However:
: 
: I'm a minor.  So I'm not bound by any contractual obligation, to AT&T or anyone
: else.  If USL is still working on the trade-secret angle in their lawsuit, I
: or others like me will, once we hit the mainstream of the computer industry,
: be exactly the type of legal conduit for information that removes trade-secret
: protection.  I doubt that USL has the legal resources to fight with the common
: law...

The problem with that is that whoever gave you access to the source can be sued
(and successfully, I might add) for giving you such access, because you are not
an adult, and cannot enter into a legal binding contract - this is a clear
violation of the AT&T licensing agreement.
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering."   -- Buddha