NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/unix/wizards/5640

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From: [e-mail] (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: BSDI/USL Lawsuit -- More Bad News for Human Beings...
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:57:13 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>>Given the importance of presenting a positive image at a large trade
>>show and the $$$ spent to achieve it, you can bet that two things would
>>happen. First you *would* get noticed. And second you would probably be
>>escorted off the premises.
>
>Excuse me?  Get escorted of USENIX premises for telling a USL employee
>what I thought USL could do with their lawsuit?  What the hell?  Nobody
>is likely to beat anybody else up over this, you know, and this /is/ a
>free country, and AT&T (or Novell) is /not/ big brother.

Given that USL does not own Usenix, and that you have the right to free
speech, I would dare say that doing so would expose USENIX to a rather
expensive legal adventure known as a lawsuit.

I've given SCO and other vendors a hard time at trade shows several times;
none has had the audacity to attempt to have me removed.  If they had, you
can bet I'd be back in 10 minutes with the TV crews.  You want bad
publicity?  Start something like that and if it is me you have removed <YOU
WILL HAVE BAD PUBLICITY>.  Trust me.

--
Karl Denninger ([e-mail], <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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