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From: Rick.Rashid@CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: Mach on the I386
Message-ID: <ob3AwOi00jdXA=In9r@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 90 18:21:14 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Chuck,
    I can answer your major questions as follows:

     1) CMU is in fact working to provide a freely distributable version
        of both the Mach kernel and a Unix compatible environment.  We
        are cooperating in this effort with many other groups including FSF.

     2) Mach has been primarily funded by the US Govt.  All work done by
        CMU on Mach has been distributed by CMU with no license fee and
        not even a distribution or media charge.  To the extent that we
        distribute software done by others we must abide by their
        licensing and distribution rules.
-Rick