*BSD News Article 3744


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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:39:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Aug17.073954.15969@kithrup.COM>
References: <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com> <5146@airs.com>
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In article <5146@airs.com> ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
>Apple seems to do fairly
>well with a freely redistributable operating system.

APPLE DOES NOT HAVE A FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM!

Any macintosh is licensed for the Apple OS, but that is *it*.  Any and all
clones that might, or might not, exist are not allowed to run the code.

That is an important point.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "You can't get lost in in one room, no matter how
sef@kithrup.COM  |  little effort you make to learn your way around."
-----------------+    -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.