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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!ncr-sd!sceard!mrm From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Aug8.160024.3222@sceard.Sceard.COM> Reply-To: mrm@sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Organization: The Mole and Badger Association of Northern San Diego County References: <l6nibgINNje6@neuro.usc.edu> <QeTP0wq00iUyM68Gwo@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 92 16:00:24 GMT Lines: 23 In article <QeTP0wq00iUyM68Gwo@andrew.cmu.edu> Sean McLinden <sean+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >It is nothing but arrogance for AT&T to assume that because it took them so >long to do something, that a bright group of highly motivated people working >in an unrestricted environment aimed at producing a work which was suitable >for free and public consumption could not do better. > How many folks did it take to do UNIX(tm) the very first time? :-) Including an argument that because it was done quickly it is unfair borders on terminally ignorant. Certainly embarassing. Is it just since it became gigantic, humongous, and bloated, such that it requires many people, and computerized databases, and automated coffee brewers just to manage its problem reports, that it needs a long time to create it without infringing? How I love it when the copyright blather takes more space in a source distribution than the code itself. See USL /bin/true and CSRG /usr/include/strings.h. Couldn't it just be included once or read into the record, or assumed, or inserted with a TECO macro built into the kernel? It is wasteful of disk space and offensive to sensitive people. -- Mike Murphy mrm@Sceard.COM ucsd!sceard!mrm +1 619 598 5874