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From: marc@wiz.com (Marc Wiz)
Subject: Re: DCE secure core and DFS for BSDi?
Organization: Wizywyg Software
Message-ID: <DuqpA8.29n@wiz.com>
References: <4rumio$qhc@news.more.net> <JMR.96Jul10152743@guppy.sps.mot.com> <4sgul8$h01@arl-news-svc-2.compuserve.com> <glvITFG00iWZI8aH5x@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:56:32 GMT
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In article <glvITFG00iWZI8aH5x@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Marvin A Sirbu  <sirbu+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.dce: 16-Jul-96 Re: DCE secure core
>and DFS.. by David E. Lindeman@davel. 
>>       I was the project leader for a project to do just this; the port
>> was never finished because the company decided to commit to NT.  However,
>> RPC & pthreads are up and running (1.0.2a source on BSDi 1.1).  CDS was
>> not completed and we never started security.  If you were to buy a source
>> license for DCE 1.0x, we could probably arrange to get you the changes we
>> made. 
>
>Why should one need a source license?  The source code for the RPC has
>been made publicly available by the OSF.

Because OSF did not make the source code for the CDS and security
components publicly available.

Marc

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