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From: cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick)
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Subject: Re: Mach on the I386
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Date: 5 Oct 90 14:41:07 GMT
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In article <10665@pt.cs.cmu.edu> rvb@natasha.mach.cs.cmu.edu (Robert Baron) writes:
>...
>Now if you are willing to give us or Berkeley several
>hundred thousand dollars (around $200,000 I beleive) so that
>we can acquire such a license, then someone could get excited
>about distributing the Mach system.
>...
>be surprised if this company would GIVE Mach away....

OK, so how about CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) just finish
the job and rewrite the rest of UNIX under Mach and release it
into the public domain.
And while we're talking Mach, I'd like an answer to the following
question:
  How much, if any, money that went into Mach came from United
  States tax dollars?.. either directly or indirectly, including
  NSF or other scientific forms of funding... and into Mach in ANY
  form, including graduate student funding?
The reason I ask should be obvious... here you'd have people with
386's who paid for Mach and who can't even be Beta sites.
  By the way, wouldn't the Free Software Foundation (GNU) be a 
great place to distribute Free Mach?

  ... just a reminder:
		take it from the greedy and give it to the needy
-- 
	Chuck Herrick				cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu