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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!spcvxb!mauritz_c From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386 Message-ID: <1993Jun12.092715.6266@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: 12 Jun 93 09:27:15 EDT References: <1993Jun11.080552.6234@spcvxb.spc.edu> <1993Jun11.181807.8884@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jun12.022844.7448@e2big.mko.dec.com> <1993Jun12.040132.18268@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: SPC Community Access System Lines: 43 In article <1993Jun12.040132.18268@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > 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. IBM is in business to make money too, but nobody seems to care if I ask OS/2 questions on the net, rather than pay Big Blue's support fees. I didn't realize that some of you guys were so touchy about this issue. What is so evil about trying to make a profit from one's labor? Anyway, it was not my intention to start a flame war. I'll keep the questions in comp.unix.bsd. Peace, Chris