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From: cgwst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Gray Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: OS costs
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Date: 14 Sep 90 21:20:25 GMT
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In article <70400021@m.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>[ ... ] MACH is going to become freeware.
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>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).

* RUMORS RUMORS *

I hear that MACH *3.0* will be freeware.  At this point MACH contains the
Andrew file system which is licensed (I don't think it needs an AT&T or BSD
license though).  MACH 3.0 will include a PD competitor to Andrew whose name I
am forgetting.

GNU and MACH people are working on the problems with the licensing right
now but GNU has officially dropped devlopment on their kernel because of the
MACH prospects.

Free UNIX here we come.
gray