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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!csn!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386 Message-ID: <1993Jun12.040132.18268@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <1993Jun11.080552.6234@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1993Jun11.181807.8884@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jun12.022844.7448@e2big.mko.dec.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 93 04:01:32 GMT Lines: 35 In article <1993Jun12.022844.7448@e2big.mko.dec.com> jtkohl@zk3.dec.com (John Kohl) writes: >In article <1993Jun11.181807.8884@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > > >> 4) The pollenization goes both ways, and the 386BSD community >> also benefits. > >> BSDI has been >> mostly fair about (4), although they have gotten major benefits (like the >> ISOFS and console drivers) > >actually, BSDI comes with its own BSDI-written ISO 9660 and Rock Ridge >file system code. Fine. The point is not precisely *what* code BSDI has used to its benefit -- its that BSDI has used *any* code to its benefit (it has). I believe the previous statement to be irrefutable. I prefer *not* to become aware of BSDI internals on two grounds: 1) The lawsuit isn't over. 2) It is not possible to claim my code as a derivitive work. I *do* believe that they have derived greater benefit from 386BSD than 386BSD has derived from BDSI. I *know* than some patches originated with BSDI (or at least users who would not have gotten involved were it not for BSDI), so I am *not* claiming NO benefit, I am claiming LESSER benefit. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.