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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2054 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:09:56 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!wjolitz From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 386BSD Posix Compliance Date: 23 Feb 1993 20:04:54 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1me016$4j8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu Just to reassure people, 386BSD will remain POSIX compliant. Extensions to the system are "experimental" and will be justified over time. However, 386BSD development remains focussed on novel research and development issues. Compatibility with commercial systems is not a primary goal. Commercial companies which wish to slip-stream 386BSD development work instead of competing in the commercial market and spending their own dollars on meeting their customer's needs will find 386BSD is not the "golden goose" they may have bet on. In other words, playing in the commercial game is costly, and won't be financed by us. Discussions regarding commercial systems belong in their respective newsgroup and not in the 386BSD newsgroups. 386BSD newsgroups, like the linux newsgroups, are intended for developers of these freely available systems -- not proprietary and controlled ones. Lynne