meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner) (11/13/88)
It occurs to me that if a class action suit is filed against Morris, it may backfire big time. As somebody else mentioned, in class action suits, institutions with "deep pockets" (ie, multimillion dollar companies, large universities, governments, etc.) are brought in as co-defendents, even if their share of the guilt is small. Given the sources came from AT&T and the University of California at Berkeley, they would be named as co-defendents in the suit. I seem to recall that in the infamous Berkeley license agreement, there is a clause that if Berkeley is ever sued, companies who license the Berkeley software are also made co-defendents. I would imagine there is probably similar wording in AT&T's contracts. Think about it for a bit.... Disclaimer: It's been quite a bit of time since I've seen license agreements, and I'm not a lawyer. -- Michael Meissner, Data General. Uucp: ...!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!meissner Arpa: meissner@dg-rtp.DG.COM (or) meissner%dg-rtp.DG.COM@relay.cs.net