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From: lyndon@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development
Message-ID: <lyndon.709851925@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 29 Jun 92 21:05:25 GMT
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tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes:
> I think we need to finish BSD 4.4 by either purchasing the software or
> set a private fund. We also need to keep BSD software active. We need
> a common environment to do our research and our learning. Commercial software
> is too restrictive and not a common ground. If we fail to keep a research
> environment, Unix devolopement will only happen in big companies, and
> new features will be acquired by those with big money or cross-licenses
> agreements.
Perhaps we are about to witness the emergence of another branch on the
tree of UNIX's evolution as BSDI and "research" 4.4BSD split apart.
I wonder, though, just how much longer we can beat on BSD as a research
environment? Much of the current research is being done on software that
bears little resemblance to the current BSD OS, although several present
a BSD-like interface to the (user space) programmer.
--lyndon
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