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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Restrictions on free UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Message-ID: <KTFI8CA@taronga.com>
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:07:21 GMT
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In article <PHR.92Aug17112028@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
>The copyleft does not prevent development shops from using GCC.
>If they think it does, they haven't been paying attention, or they are
>letting their decisions be controlled by paranoid knee-jerk reactions
>instead of by intelligence.
In case you haven't noticed, the world is run by paranoid knee-jerk
reactions. I think that's dumb, too (and I'd be happy to use GCC if it
was available for the stone-age systems I support), but it's another
good reason to keep 386BSD really free.
>We saw the same situation with Unix, but it didn't work out so well.
Unix has never been free before, so you don't know what the results will
be. I like the fact that the FSF stuff is out there, but we need more
variety than just one model of freely-distributable software. Why are
you bitching? GNU OS is coming any day now and nobody will bother with
386BSD any more, right?
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Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032