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Subject: Re: George William Herbert's Challenge - Part 4 (copyright & derived works)
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>For those of you with source access, review stand & boot with this
>frame of mind

Stand and boot???  Is that what you're flaming about?  Who gives a
good god damn?  I'd be perfectly happy to be able to be able to freely
redistribute everything in net2 or 4.4 BSD-lite but that - the stuff
that's in those directories is in most cases trivial and in many cases
simply useless.

I don't care whether it's similar to equivalent AT&T code - I can't
use it anyway on my machine!  Give me a break!   When I needed to get
a pre-alpha version of 4.4BSD to boot diskless, I wrote my own code to
handle booting anyway, and it works damned nicely, thank you.

			       _MelloN_
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