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From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Catch What They're Saying About Us...
Date: 29 Sep 1992 11:49:01 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In article <19ta0nINNj2q@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>They have
>even received Chris Torek's sparc code, paid for by the taxpayers,
>which has not been made available to others despite repeated requests,

Oh, please.  This has come up before on comp.unix.bsd.  BSDI made an
arrangement with LBL, who owns the code.  Whether it was a licensing
agreement or a code exchange, I don't know, but neither BSDI nor Chris
can make it available without the consent of LBL.

Chet
-- 
``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
	-- Arthur Schlesinger

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu