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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4083 comp.os.386bsd.development:2692 comp.os.minix:24304 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.minix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!crash!cwr From: cwr@crash.cts.com (Will Rose) Subject: Re: 386BSD Release 1.0 Ships!!! Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 23:08:18 GMT Message-ID: <Cz8Axy.3B5@crash.cts.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.minix X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <jmonroyCz4rG2.9wH@netcom.com> <KSTAILEY.94Nov12114701@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <jmonroyCz6uMs.MHB@netcom.com> Sender: news@crash.cts.com (news subsystem) Nntp-Posting-Host: crash.cts.com Lines: 34 Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote: : Kenneth Stailey (kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: : : Other PDOSs that are available are : : MINIX by Dr. Tanenbaum's, : : ^^^^^ : : when did this become free? : : : It is incorrect to state that it is free. : Public Domain does not always mean that it is free or : free from "copyright" restrictions. Outside of your fairly specialised mind, PD does indeed mean free of copyright restrictions. : To answer your concern, I should not have stated that : it was PD, but considered PD. That is, a majority : of the effort for MINIX not directly in Dr. Tanenbaum's : hands are free. In the sense that code is posted to : the newsgroup comp.os.minix, it is PD. Outside of your fairly specialised mind, no, it is not considered PD. Dr. Tanenbaum directly controls the current (1.5) release, and will do so for the forseeable future. If you wish to post nonsense on BSD, post it to comp.os.minix - no one will care. If you wish to post nonsense on Minix, post to comp.os.bsd (?) - on the same principle; but it is unwise to so extensively cross-post your follies. Will cwr@crash.cts.com