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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!marsh!cproto From: cproto@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development Message-ID: <cproto.709610370@marsh> Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager) Organization: Curtin University of Technology References: <79@ampr.ab.ca> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1992 01:59:30 GMT lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >Before everyone throws their money away trying to keep CSRG alive, >consider that the way every gov't institution works makes it impossible >for us to "fund" the CSRG. Any money sent to UCB goes into the general [Stuff deleted] >It you want to see BSD continue as a living entity, take your money >down to the BSDI folks and exchange it for a distribution tape. I don't agree with the previous statement. To keep BSD alive everybody who can afford it should donate some money to Bill Jolitz. He has done more for the computer science world then AT&T and CSRG and BSDI. He has made BSD available on a cheap platform for free. By this BSD has become accessible to a vast number of individuals who never before had access to a complete OS in source. Thanks to him and thousands of other people who contributed to BSD it is now available to every science and research group as well as every student who has access to a PC. Its not perfect, it has bugs, and we still wait for 0.1 (Agrrrrr...) but its a dream come true. So stuff BSDI and AT&T, let the CSRG die but send your money to Bill. He works very hard without any funding so we who benefit from his work should support him if we can. Thanks again Bill. Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@abel.cs.curtin.edu.au)