🚀 go-pugleaf

I read with no little horror the letter from AT&T's lawyer which would
require those getting X source to pay AT&T a royalty.  I have been one
of those sincerely intending to join LPF real soon now.  This jolted
me into action.  Gentlemen, your check is in an envelope and will be
in tomorrow's mail.

The courts are bound to realize, eventually, how this new industry of
filing patents on obvious and generally known techniques and then
launching well-financed suits that paralyze innovation is legal
nonsense.  It could take them a decade, however.  In the meantime, the
US software industry could be in turmoil.  And the chances that our
foreign competition will be this stupid, vile and self-destructive are
terribly close to zero.

Is there any consideration of a boycott against AT&T?  I would hate
the idea of going back to their long distance competition, but poor
long distance service is a small price to pay to preserve a rational
software industry.

Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
137 E Fremont AVE #122, Sunnyvale CA 94087
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Jeffrey Kegler, Independent UNIX Consultant, Algorists, Inc.
jeffrey@algor2.ALGORISTS.COM or uunet!algor2!jeffrey
137 E Fremont AVE #122, Sunnyvale CA 94087