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From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The Upgrade Process
Message-ID: <638710212.17579@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Mar 90 11:30:12 GMT
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There seems to be a lot of traffic about "PH own the Copyright, and
they are Legal/Business Types", or "Why can't someone decent sell
proper upgrades?".

It seems to me that this state of affairs is slowing converging towards
the "AT&T won't let people have the sources to Unix cheaply anymore
because they are Legal/Business types".. just the sort of thing Minix
was written to avoid.

Also, how can PH have copyright over all the sources when a lot of them
have been written by netlanders all over the world?

-Ken