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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 15 Apr 1996 12:34:41 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH Dresden
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nelson@ns.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:

>Hey Carl, how do?  You're exactly one of the FreeBSD contributors I'm
>thinking of.

Except, he isn't one. :)

>  It's essentially
>impossible (unmanagably large problem) to have an operating system
>with a large number of significant copyright holders, distribute the
>code in any proprietary manner, and compensate the copyright holders.

Dunno which compensation you're talking of, but the *BSD's actually
*are* distributed with a large number of copyright holders.

The BSD copyright (i.e., the one with ``The Regents of the Univers-
ity'') is essentially only stuck with the inherited code; new code is
owned by whoever wrote it.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j