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From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:30:42 +0100
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In article <314E0DB7.624ACB10@netcom.com> Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> writes:


: Until Minix/Linux came along, the UNIX way was to charge a lot of money
: for a system and not release source code.

Nonsense. The original UNIX way was to give away the source code for
free. The "charge money and keep the source secret" thing came later;
otherwise BSD UNIX probably wouldn't exist.
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