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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.064428.6353@kithrup.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 90 06:44:28 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.035940.28832@NCoast.ORG> <1990Dec15.021924.2866@kithrup.COM> <1990Dec16.023519.9152@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1990Dec16.023519.9152@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
>If I didn't know better, I'd call that a cheap ploy to make System V
>undesireable for FIPS work....

Why not go with your instincts? 8-)

Kirk stated (at a talk about the future of BSD [*not* the UseNIX one, this
was at a bookstore when the BSD book came out]) that they (the Berkeley
Folks) pushed for some of the options as FIPS requirements to get people to
use "sane" operating systems...

I won't repeate what my whispered comments were... 8-)

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