Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!ames!mailrus!umix!oxtrap!lokkur!scs From: scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Unix PC brain-damaged uucp, Honey DAN BER, etc Message-ID: <413@lokkur.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 02:18:14 GMT References: <1311@neoucom.UUCP> <724@sialis.mn.org> Reply-To: scs@lokkur.UUCP (Steve Simmons) Organization: Inland Sea Software, Ltd. Lines: 33 In article <724@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes: |>The point of my meandering is that HDB apparently works and it is |>working very well for us. The question is, why is AT&T not |>releasing it? Must be internal politics or whatever. | |Basically, this is the story as I know it... [[gives nice summary, |many thanks]] | |>Does anybody know about the status of HDB now that it has been |>withdrawn from the STORE? | |Again, this is "as I have been told"... HDB is not a released product |for the 3b1. Only ATT and VARs have access to it. For a short while, |HDB was placed in the public area on The Store!, and those that got it |then are entitled to keep it, in an unsupported mode, but cannot |redistribute it to anyone else. The actual details and "legality" |elude me. Shall I comment on the legality of releasing something to the public and then attempting to pull it back? No, I won't -- I'm not a lawyer. But if the answer to the question: "At the time that you got HDB from The Store, did AT&T have you sign a licence that you could not redistribute?" is: "No." then my decidedly non-professional opinion is that they're SOL (Short Of Luck). If there are any brave people with HDB and the same opinion, can you guess what I'd like? -- + Steve Simmons, Inland Sea Software, Ltd. scs@lokkur.uucp + | 9353 Hidden Lake, Dexter, MI. 48130 313-426-8981 | + UNIX Admin and Training Services "Just eight scenic miles from Hell" +