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From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,misc.int-property,alt.suit.att-bsdi
Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
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Date: 5 Sep 92 12:43:06 GMT
References: <EDWI5ZL@taronga.com> <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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In article <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter) writes:
>Actually, NET2 was the first release from CSRG (the BSD people) that did not
>require a license from ATT/USL.
Net/2 is not "the first release...that did not require a license". It is,
however, the largest and most complete such release. It is the first from
which one could reasonably construct a complete operating system.
CSRG also released the smaller, license-free Networking 1, which is so
far not involved in the lawsuit.
--
"Beware of programmers who Stephen Trier
carry screwdrivers." Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom
Leonard Brandwein Case Western Reserve University
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