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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,misc.int-property,alt.suit.att-bsdi
Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
Message-ID: <QG0JYC1@taronga.com>
Date: 6 Sep 92 03:00:32 GMT
References: <EDWI5ZL@taronga.com> <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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In article <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter) writes:
>Actually, NET2 was the first release from CSRG (the BSD people) that did not
>require a license from ATT/USL.
I thought that was true of Net/1 as well, except that Net/1 had a lot less
in it.
>Personally, I'll invest any future money of my own, or my employer in
>POSIX compliant OS (like OSF1, OS/2, Windows NT, etc).
You're assuming that "posix compliant" means anything actually useful.
>From what I've seen it's seriously incomplete for any real applications,
and so amounts to no more than a checkmark on a requirements sheet.
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