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From: paradis@acestes.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: OSF/1 kernel
Message-ID: <118@acestes.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 90 09:32:20 GMT
References: <28990@usc>
Reply-To: paradis@acestes.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Organization: Alberichs Rings & Things
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In article <28990@usc> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>I'm not sure, but I thought that maybe OSF == GNU.  Please correct me if
>I'm wrong.  If this is true, I don't have any hope for a free full
>V.4/BSD Unix ever coming out.  (I sincerly hope I'm wrong.)

You're wrong.  OSF most emphatically != GNU.  In fact, when OSF was
started, Stallman was a bit peeved at their choice of name (GNU is
produced by the *Free* Software Foundation, a different animal
entirely).

As for free unices, my little bird tells me that UCB is working on
"scrubbing" the AT&T code from BSD UNIX.  When that is done, BSD
UNIX will indeed be completely free...
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