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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ???
Date: 10 Aug 1994 08:26:54 -0500
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References: <325760$rc9@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <Cu8CBr.Fx@calcite.rhyolite.com> <RSANDERS.94Aug9003813@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <CuA6w1.5tF@calcite.rhyolite.com>
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In article <CuA6w1.5tF@calcite.rhyolite.com>,
Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote:
>I think my PPP code is better than the public domain code I could not
>use because of its commercial restrictions,

Please... if it was "public domain" it has no restrictions on its use.
That's what public domain means. If it has restrictions, it's not public
domain.

No objection to the content of your message, just pointing out a terminology
problem. Lawyers love it when people use phrases like this inappropriately.