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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: OS costs
Message-ID: <7925@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 21:17:01 GMT
References: <36054@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <70400021@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <70400021@m.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>/* Written  4:19 pm  Sep  7, 1990 by cgwst@unix.cis.pitt.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */
>/* ---------- "Re: OS costs" ---------- */
>[ ... ] MACH is going to become freeware.
>/* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */
>I find this difficult to believe, since currently MACH requires both a 
>Berkeley and an AT&T source license. (At least, that's the word from the CMU
>MACH people).

Believe it..

CMU's plan is to do whatever they can to free it from the little snippets
of AT&T and Berkeley code that are left.

It's quite doable, just takes some effort and time is all.
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