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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!aixterm7.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!mnullmei From: mnullmei@aixterm7.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Markus Nullmeier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Date: 30 Aug 1995 23:30:27 GMT Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <422saj$ege@news.belwue.de> References: <41j8ek$gq2@wolfe.wimsey.com> <41ki0u$7lr@news.belwue.de> <41l252$fia@wolfe.wimsey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aixterm7.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:863 comp.unix.bsd.misc:189 comp.os.linux.advocacy:18425 in article <41l252$fia@wolfe.wimsey.com>, Curt Sampson (curt@cynic.portal.ca) wrote: >The letter is appended. >Subject: August 1995 Issue of _Computer_ >To: m.potes@computer.org >Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 18:56:38 -0700 (PDT) >Dear Sir, >I'm writing to express my disappointment with an article and a column >in the August 1995 issue of _Computer_. > (The Net/2 >portion of that has been available to everyone, academic or not, >for free.) Has been, yes, since it was withdrawn because of the UCB/USL agreement. >licence less restrictive than that of Linux, has been available on >the Intel 386 platform since Jolitz released his port of the Net/2 Many potential users were scared off from the USL lawsuit. This maybe wasn't heroic, but this way things happend. >the Internet. The code itself eventually appears under Linux (Linux's >networking, though not of the same quality as that of any of the >BSD systems, was derived from Net2), This reads misleading. While most networking user mode programs from Net/2 or later BSD code are used, there is no BSD code in the Linux kernel networking (the Van Jacobson TCP header compression code from UCB was taken from the defining RFC).