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From: quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug Quale)
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
In-Reply-To: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Sat, 17 Apr 1993 21:03:03 GMT
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In article <1993Apr17.210303.12001@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

   The stdio code that HJ has done lots of work on(and I commend him on
   it).  The original code, before he fixed some of the bugs, was originally
   distributed by AT&T, but HJ's fixes are now GPL code, so in order to
   get working stdio code we have to do those fixes all over in order to
   make anything compiled against those libraries ABSOLUTELY FREELY
   REDISTRUTABLE.

Well Nate, the stdio code in Linux is GNU iostream, part of the g++ library,
has always been under the GPL, and was *never* distributed by AT&T.  Of
course your argument is so confused that I don't expect you to pay any
attention to accuracy or the facts in your posts, but I thought I should
point that out for the benefit of the people who aren't familiar with the
Linux libraries.
--
Doug Quale
quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu