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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 15 Apr 1996 12:34:41 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4ktfp1$m8@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4ki055$60l@radon.stanford.edu> <jdd.829261293@cdf.toronto.edu> <yfglok14n5r.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <NELSON.96Apr12112334@ns.crynwr.com> <4krrmj$dsu@library.erc.clarkson.edu> <NELSON.96Apr15000449@ns.crynwr.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21352 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:583 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3189 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2997 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17319 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45402 nelson@ns.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes: >Hey Carl, how do? You're exactly one of the FreeBSD contributors I'm >thinking of. Except, he isn't one. :) > It's essentially >impossible (unmanagably large problem) to have an operating system >with a large number of significant copyright holders, distribute the >code in any proprietary manner, and compensate the copyright holders. Dunno which compensation you're talking of, but the *BSD's actually *are* distributed with a large number of copyright holders. The BSD copyright (i.e., the one with ``The Regents of the Univers- ity'') is essentially only stuck with the inherited code; new code is owned by whoever wrote it. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j