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From: bhiksha+@cs.cmu.edu (Bhiksha Raj)
Subject: Re: Come now... Where's 1.1 Relese ?
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M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au> wrote:
>
>And certainly USL fails very badly again on FreeBSD merits for extending BSD
>life after UCB announcement of their final release due to fund dry-up for
>ongoing development. And imagine the PC markets FreeBSD will cover, and for
>each PC installed with FreeBSD "a Unix [tm] like system ... blah blah blah"
>
>[tm] Unix is a trademark of USL <----- This sort of shit! Where is the merit of
>					BSD (and *BSD ?)
>
>The FreeBSD team is certainly doing a BIG favour for USL, and the worst being
>that they get no money or whatsoever financial support for doing such a favour
>for the community! My big salute to FreeBSD team here.
>

I second and third this statement :-)
Anyway, I havent really understood what the situation is: What exactly
does USL grouch about - the entire net-2 code or just parts of it?
Has BSD 4.4 lite redone the entire net-2 code, in case of case 1?