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From: nobody@read.my.sig (Joerg Pommnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 29 Jan 1997 21:45:43 GMT
Organization: IBM
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In <5cjrh1$gcv$1@Venus.mcs.net>, les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>Actually you are explicitly allowed to add modules for Linux without
>releasing source, although I don't know if anyone has done this yet.

3 come to mind:
 * commercial version of OSS
 * Caldera NetWare Requester
 * MIT AFS module
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