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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!PIRANHA.LCS.MIT.EDU!douzzer From: douzzer@PIRANHA.LCS.MIT.EDU (Daniel G. Pouzzner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Date: 13 Jan 1994 07:52:59 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2h2ukr$o4v@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: piranha.lcs.mit.edu i checked out some of the legal mumbojumbo in ftp.bsdi.com:/usl. not a pretty sight. i'm particularly amused at the irony of my own situation with IRIX: i wanted to port bsd to the indy partly to have open source instead of a proprietary OS. in fact, SGI is named in (at least) one of the documents as guilty of swiping bsd code for use in IRIX in flagrant violation of the licensing agreement. i hope hope hope this situation gets fixed sooner rather than too late. i mean, seriously, if the public perceives the world of UNIX as not only conceptually challenging, but also replete with just the kind of legal wrangling no one wants to be near, then they'll use windowsNT. no one in their right mind wants that. -- -daniel douzzer@athena.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 0B 99 0D 4F E8 55 9A 95 43 C1 7F B5 DF 8F E3 33 finger douzzer@ai.mit.edu for public key (finger douzzer@piranha.lcs.mit.edu for independent copy)