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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!rtech!ingres!jpk
From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.022246.21308@pony.Ingres.COM>
Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
References: <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <YSDIBS4@taronga.com> <PHR.92Aug16224207@soda.berkeley.edu> <WLEIPPE@taronga.com>
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:22:46 GMT
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Peter da Silva writes:
> as BSDI has demonstrated, "coming with source code" and "free" are in
> no way synonymous.

This was well understood thirty years before BSDI.

But it took USL to show  how "coming with source code" and
"free" could be antonymous.

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger  jpk@ingres.com