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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM's message of Thu, 25 Jun 1992 23:40:31 GMT Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Jun27111848@adelphi.pa.dec.com> Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Network Software Lab References: <79@ampr.ab.ca> <1992Jun25.234031.6037@kithrup.COM> Date: 27 Jun 92 11:18:48 Lines: 30 [sef writes] >> When the Net/2 tape came out, you could ftp it from any place that had it >> (uunet eventually offered it). Just to clear up any possible misconception that could arise from reading this; UUNET took the 4.3-Tahoe release and gutted it of any files that had AT&T code in them and put the remainder up for anonymous FTP (and uucp to their existing customers or users of their 900-number UUCP service). The result was later cleaned up and released as the "Berkeley Networking Tape", which was the first partial-but-free Berkeley release. When "Berkeley Networking 2" came out, it was available from UUNET the very first day. (I know that because I got the bits that are on Gatekeeper.DEC.COM from UUNET; I also bought a tape from CSRG later on since they needed the revenue.) Any implication that UUNET did not offer net-1 or net-2 *immediately* is false. The only release to which the word "eventually" applies wrt UUNET's making it available is Jolix-0.0, which UUNET did not offer until they had had a chance to verify that it contained no licensed code; UUNET does not ship binaries, so their ftp'able copy of Jolix-0.0 is source-only -- you can't get up and running with the bits they provide. "No binaries" is a long-standing UUNET policy, so there was no exception made for Jolix-0.0. Disclaimer: I know all of these people but I have no business relationship with any of them. My employer is Digital Equipment Corp but I am NOT their spokes- person. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Flames to /dev/null. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Ready, Fire, Aim" <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul alt.pink.bunny.boom.boom.boom moderator