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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!dtix!mimsy!ra!hightop!deal From: deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Deal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Message-ID: <3375@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: 17 Aug 92 23:12:02 GMT References: <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com> <5146@airs.com> <1992Aug17.073954.15969@kithrup.COM> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Labs (Washington DC) Lines: 26 In article <1992Aug17.073954.15969@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >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. > An important point but a little inacurate. You can run any OS you whant to on the Mac's, you can run mac OS system 7 on any machine that it will run on also. You do need the roms or ram copy of them to do it. There are several clones of the mac that use old roms as well as several emulators (one for the SPARC), these all run mac OS. You can ftp the mac OS on the net from Apple sites or pay for a srink wrap version with docs. -- #include <std/*> The Butcher Butch Deal deal@hightop.nrl.navy.mil --------------------------------------------------------------------------------