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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD) Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:39:54 GMT Message-ID: <1992Aug17.073954.15969@kithrup.COM> References: <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com> <5146@airs.com> Lines: 16 In article <5146@airs.com> ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) writes: >Apple seems to do fairly >well with a freely redistributable operating system. APPLE DOES NOT HAVE A FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM! Any macintosh is licensed for the Apple OS, but that is *it*. Any and all clones that might, or might not, exist are not allowed to run the code. That is an important point. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in in one room, no matter how sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around." -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.