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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!hilly!peter From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: UNIGRAM's article on the USL-BSDI suit Message-ID: <peter.712682727@hilly> Date: 1 Aug 92 15:25:27 GMT References: <1992Aug1.042344.23428@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <l7k5fqINNgc9@neuro.usc.edu> <l7k6maINNgeg@neuro.usc.edu> <l7k72rINNgfn@neuro.usc.edu> <leb.712651912@Hypatia> Organization: MicroMuse Limited, London, England. Lines: 23 leb@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Lee E. Brotzman) writes: >Now, this claim that any poor undergraduate student that has been >unfortunate enough to take an operating systems course will be suddenly >unemployable because of "contamination" from his college texts if they mention >UNIX, is pure bullshit. There are jobs with firms that have paid their source >license fee (i.e. all firms that market UNIX, I guess). And when BSDI wins >this case, there may be a few more jobs available. Let's face it, the real >money is in applications, not kernels. Sorry, have I missed something ? Are you saying that if the University you attended holds an academic source license, then only employers with *commercial* (about $100000) licenses should be *allowed* to employ you ? I know my polytechnic had a source license, but it was never loaded on the systems due to lack of space. I have worked for a comapny (Unisys, sad really) that had a source license for UNIX(tm). Does this mean I cannot now write code and make it *freely* redistirbutable ??? I hope you are completely wrong... please :-( -- Peter Galbavy Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk