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#! rnews 1741 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!rain.fr!globalip.ch!imp.ch!SUNqbc.risq.net!news1.bellglobal.com!bellglobal.com!not-for-mail From: "Terry Milnes" <tzmilnes@worldchat.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.1 on CDROM Date: 24 Apr 1997 01:45:34 GMT Organization: Bell Network Solutions Lines: 21 Message-ID: <01bc5051$a0ea8b70$9d8ad2cd@milan> References: <5jgap9$eef$3@flint.sentex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.210.138.157 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39664 I just downloaded the whole thing, I was too impatient to wait for the supplier to bring in the Wcreek release, however they didn't say anything about not being able to acquire it. I think I will check to see if there are any restrictions. I know their export restrictions have something to do with the DES, however I didn't think that the export restriction applied to canada, in fact I beleive I got that too.... Tm. ------------------ > 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?