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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!rutgers!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!pfaffman From: pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development Message-ID: <Jun.26.19.58.40.1992.26516@pilot.njin.net> Date: 26 Jun 92 23:58:40 GMT References: <79@ampr.ab.ca> <1992Jun26.002442.19231@henson.cc.wwu.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 phil@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Phil Nelson) writes: >IMHO a major draw for BSD4.4 is that it was to be freely copyable. >If I understand BSDI correctly, the stuff they do is not freely copyable. >If it was freely copyable, then I agree, BSDI would be the people >to support. If the BSDI code is not freely copyable, then I think there >will still be many people who will want to support a different group. Yes. I wonder how much more or less BSDI would take in if their code *were* freely distributable. I'd give them $100 or so & maybe even make the school I work for do the same. They aren't getting any of my money now. BSD386 & Linux offer too much to warrent my laying out $1K. I suspect lots of people would still spend that much if they needed support. -- Jay Pfaffman, Computer Coordinator pfaffman@pilot.njin.net Dwight-Englewood School, 315 E. Palisade Ave. Englewood, NJ 07631-0489 201-569-9500