Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.2bsd Subject: Re: Hah! Summary: Hah! indeed... 2BSD is not a product -- Ultrix-11 is. Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 90 14:22:52 GMT References: <1990Oct17.002046.2897@virtech.uucp> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: rickr@virtech.uucp's message of 17 Oct 90 00:20:46 GMT On 17 Oct 90 00:20:46 GMT, rickr@virtech.uucp (Rick Rodman) said: rickr> I've been informed by the Usenix Association that they will only rickr> sell me a *binary* tape of 2bsd if I have a Unix source license. rickr> So, 2bsd is a dead product, Maybe 2BSD is not a product, but a set of unofficial patches (well, quite extensive :->) to the licensed AT&T UNIX V7 source product. Maybe Usenix is not in the business of selling tapes, but it does the favour of distributing patches to duly licensed members of the public for a reimbursment of costs. Maybe tapes are always encoded in binary, unless you have a fifties vintage russian computer (trinary). Maybe if you what you want is not a binary tape with the 2BSD sources on it, but a binary sublicense to Unix V7 and a software product (on binary tapes or floppies or wahtever) covered by that binary sublicense and incorporating most of the 2BSD patches you could call your nearest DEC sals office and ask them for material on Ultrix-11. rickr> and the presence of this group on the net is an abuse of public rickr> money. To quote Ken Olsen: "Unix is snake oil." I cannot follow your logic, but maybe "ab falso omnia sequitur" (If i remember well the relevant phrase). -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk