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From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: Funding 4.4BSD Development
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References: <1992Jun28.204256.14620@uunet.uu.net> <1992Jun29.053223.3337@kithrup.COM> <1992Jun29.151739.2005@utstat.uucp>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1992 19:26:24 GMT

In article <1992Jun29.151739.2005@utstat.uucp> tg@utstat.uucp (Tom Glinos) writes:
>I find it amusing that all this anguish about private companies
>benefiting from BSD work never came up when 4.[012] was taken
>by people like Gould (for example) and ported to their hardware.

If my recollection serves me correctly, Gould ported Ultrix to their boxes,
not BSD.  This can be seen in some of their documentation, which to this
day says "Ultrix" in places.

Now about complaints that DEC beneifited thusly... ;-).

					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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