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From: scott@fred.cs.washington.edu (Scott Northrop)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why I do not support GNU
Summary: Don't "real people" use BSD?
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Date: 19 Oct 89 16:26:33 GMT
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In article <1989Oct19.140255.834@odi.com> benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes:
>[...]
>(question: what widely used piece of software (that is, by real people,
>not by programmers) was ever developed at a University? If you
>can name one, are you quite sure it wasn't cleaned up by an evil
>software hoarder on the way to utility?)
>[...]
>Benson I. Margulies

Funny, I *thought* Berkeley wrote a version of unix, but I could be wrong...
Some of the code was AT&T, but that's all being rewritten, isn't it?
Scott Northrop                                scott@fred.cs.washington.edu