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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!gatech!bloom-beacon!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!pegasus.mit.edu!bri From: bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Message-ID: <1992Aug16.160055.22087@athena.mit.edu> Date: 16 Aug 92 16:00:55 GMT References: <l8n8qcINN2c5@neuro.usc.edu> <CGD.92Aug14204505@agate.berkeley.edu> <325@sleepy.UUCP> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: mit Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: pegasus.mit.edu ***FLAME BIT ON*** In article <325@sleepy.UUCP> skutvik@sleepy.UUCP ( ECMS TEST) writes: >In article <CGD.92Aug14204505@agate.berkeley.edu>, cgd@agate.berkeley.edu (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >> re: the serial driver stuff: >> As a matter of fact, I had just reconsidered, and was about to take >> the copyright notice *OFF* the file, and lo, and behold, i got hit by N >> flames. Thanks to all the flamers for ruining this one. when i first saw them hitting i thought, "hopefully someone will just SUGGEST to him nicely that he might rethink his copyright, or possibly remove it. yeah, cgd will be reasonable about it i'm sure. i wont bother then, since others will" guess i was wrong. the only people who seemed to have responded have done nothing but made things worse. i hope you get screwed cause you cant use his com driver. go write your own... >... >> remember: you have no *rights* to the works of others; anything they >> decide to give to you, be *GLAD* for. >... i respect cgd's rights to his property, but would hope he would donate his com driver to us. if not, oh well. if is that important, i'm sure one of the flamers will write one, if they can. ***FLAME BIT OFF*** > ****Ughh, I hate it when I get up on a soapbox***** sigh, so do i. maybe it would have helped if someone had earlier... -bri