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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!causse From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1 on CDROM X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <E90EtC.1Kz@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <5jgap9$eef$3@flint.sentex.net> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:36:48 GMT Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39468 Gabor Egressy (gabor@vinyl.quickweb.com) wrote: : Hi : I tried to buy FreeBSD on CDROM up here in Canada but was told that it : is illegal to bring it into Canada. That is what it says in the : Walnut Creek catalog. I went into two different book/software shops : and both places told me that they could get Linux Slackware or Red Hat : but not FreeBSD because of export restrictions. What gives? It will : be very hard for FreeBSD to become popular if you cannot get it other : than through ordering it directly from Walnut Creek. And why on earth : would their catalog say that? Wrong! This is only for DES export rights, but FreeBSD is not supposed to be shipped on CD-ROM with DES stuff... I got it here in french bookstores, and it comes direct from WC ! (without DES, of course) : -- : Gabor Egressy : gabor@quickweb.com : Typically, I don't use JAVA -- I think that strong typing is : for weak minds (and lazy compiler/interpreter writers). : -- Terry Lambert -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)