On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:59:09AM -0500, Johan A.van Zanten wrote:
> Wikipedia article about the suit:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi
> 
>  Text of settlement agreement at groklaw (linked to from wikipedia article):
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760
> 
> Earliest post to a NetBSD list i can find with TLS' name on it:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-pmax/1993/12/21/0000.html
> 
> According to Groklaw, the agreement is dated 4 Feb 1994.
> 
> Accordint to the NetBSD mailing list archives, the message from TLS is
> dated 21 December 1993.
> 
>  Could you elaborate on your assertion that TLS "[was not] around
> to talk about it when it was signed," or comment on the veracity of the
> sources above?

The sources you site have nothing to do with the USL-NetBSD agreement.
They are wholly irrelevant.  Nor was Thor in a position to even know
of the agreement before it was signed and publicly announced.

What exactly is your point?