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From: Chris Cowan <cc@mantis.austin.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.soft-sys.dce
Subject: Re: DCE secure core and DFS for BSDi?
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:20:15 -0500
Organization: ISSC DCE/DSM Architecture
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marc@wiz.com (Marc Wiz) writes:


> 
> 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
> 
> -- 

There is nothing that would prevent someone from writing a
"work-alike" based on the OSF RFCs, is there?

I have always harbored the hope that someone would do this.


-- 
Chris Cowan 
ISSC (DCE/DSM Architecture) 
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