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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 20:20:56 GMT
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References: <1993Apr17.190517.4276@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> <D87-MAL.93Apr18165428@byse.nada.kth.se>
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> I also don't understand why you think it's ok for a developer to
>   take the BSD code, add their own fixes to it without making them available,
>   and then sell the system binary only with the most restricting copyright
>   notice you can imagine,

Gee, I don't recall Sun claiming they owned *my* code because I linked it with
their toolkits.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tänään?
  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.