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From: dlu@wobble.uucp (Doug Urner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development
Message-ID: <1992Jun27.165905.27527@wobble.uucp>
Date: 27 Jun 92 16:59:05 GMT
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terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:

>For what I would use the source for (teaching and reference, as well
>as a basis for derivative works), BSDI simply doesn't cut it.

[stuff omitted]

>But I`m not going to buy it if I can't, 1 year down the
>pike, show everything to a CS student, or have an undergraduate port
>it to a VAXStation 3100 as a 3 quarter project.

I'm curious.  How do the license terms from BSDI prevent you from
"show[ing] everything to a CS student" or from doing a port to another
machine (assuming you are willing to pay BSDI the $200 for a right to
copy)?

One of the most valuable things that the CSRG provided was
*leadership*.  They were willing to bite the bullet and say "no" when
it was necessary.  The result was a coherent release (not to mention a
smaller kernel :-).

In the brave new post-CSRG world someone else or somebodies else will
need to provide that service (or we will need to attain new levels of
discussion and co-operation on the net (or at least in these groups)).
Otherwise I fear the result will show the effects of entropy and SVR4
will start looking clean and tidy.

I am more than willing to pay BSDI for the service (and their
expertise) of acting as the architects of post-CSRG "BSD" Unix.  I'd
even be happier to be part of figuring out how to work together to
maintain the coherence of the CSRG releases.


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