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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.jsums.edu!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: need secure OS to entrust millions to Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:48:35 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 25 Message-ID: <313254E3.3DA0@cet.co.jp> References: <4gi6t6$3h9@lace.colorado.edu> <312D2029.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> <nc0453Dn96w6.93F@netcom.com> <4gnoa3$i5h@park.uvsc.edu> <4gr3nr$bbc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4grlq7$k1q@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a07m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:18291 comp.os.linux.misc:89191 comp.os.linux.networking:30059 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14570 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2357 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2506 Hugh McCurdy wrote: > > kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) wrote: > > >Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: > >: nc0453@netcom.com (-) wrote: > >: > Can you name one commercial OS that provides source code? > >: > >: What are you willing to pay? > >: > >: o BSDI > >: o SVR4 > >: o VMS > >: o OSF/1 > >: o SunOS > >: > Sure, you can get source code to any program. Look at Novell, they > got Unix source code from USL for a mere $333million. ;^) Hypothetical Question: What do you think Linux would fetch if it were un-GPLed and someone could own the title and all rights to the source code? Licensing (getting) source code and owning the source code are two very different things.