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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!bb-data.de!news From: mib@bb-data.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:30:42 +0100 Organization: BB-DATA GmbH, Berlin, Germany Lines: 15 Sender: mib@laforge.ppe.bb-data.de Message-ID: <kialokv25wt.fsf@laforge.ppe.bb-data.de> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4gilab$97u@park.uvsc.edu> <4giqu8$aqk@park.uvsc.edu> <4gira2$a9d@park.uvsc.edu> <hpa.31321eee.I.use.Linux@freya.yggdrasil.com> <4h7t5i$qoh@park.uvsc.edu> <DnoqB4.2sy@pe1chl.ampr.org> <glDH59i00YUvFFjspX@andrew.cmu. <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3140C968.20699696@netcom.com> <4ia7im$i4m@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <314A470D.CCE53F0@netcom.com> <4ijs72$cim@josie.abo.fi> <314E0DB7.624ACB10@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: laforge.ppe.bb-data.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: Adam Megacz's message of Tue, 19 Mar 1996 01:28:23 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19681 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15691 In article <314E0DB7.624ACB10@netcom.com> Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> writes: : Until Minix/Linux came along, the UNIX way was to charge a lot of money : for a system and not release source code. Nonsense. The original UNIX way was to give away the source code for free. The "charge money and keep the source secret" thing came later; otherwise BSD UNIX probably wouldn't exist. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Inform. Martin Ibert, BB-DATA GmbH, Brunnenstraße 111, D-13355 Berlin >> e-mail <mib@bb-data.de>, phone +49-30-245-56582, fax +49-30-245-56577 << --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Disclaimer: My views do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. <<