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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!quip.eecs.umich.edu!dmuntz From: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 23 Jul 1994 16:58:15 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <30ri77$d9@zip.eecs.umich.edu> References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> <30h9jl$fg4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <MYCROFT.94Jul20171702@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <30q72v$3cv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quip.eecs.umich.edu In article <30q72v$3cv@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: > >It was neither cheap, nor a scare tactic. It happened once, it could >happen again. *I* wouldn't want to take my chances. Did FreeBSD replace all of its core team members who had been exposed to the tainted Net-2 code? Sounds like the basis for a lawsuit, should USL decide to come after you. How certain are you that some of those device drivers you're using weren't based on some USL code in the past and that USL might recognize it and come after you? It's not particularly easy to prove your code isn't borrowed even if you're writing all of the non 4.4Lite code "from scratch." All this arguing is absurd. NetBSD and FreeBSD have about equal chances of being pursued by USL (Novell?) IMHO; equal chances being about zero. >'Don't need a ton of bricks to fall on my head twice.' If you aren't consciously using scare tactics, you should at least read and try to understand what you write. The implication of this statement is that bad things are likely to happen to people who use NetBSD. If this is what you intended, fine, but I'd say the basis for this statement is flimsy, and it is therefore a "scare tactic." If you're *so* concerned, switch to Linux. It seems to be the least vulnerable. Just for the record, I'm running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1-RELEASE on all of my machines at the moment and I'm quite happy with it. Hopefully, "porting" software to 2.0 will be as easy as it is under 1.1.5.1 (type make :). -Dan