Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: (Free) book on the Amoeba distributed system available Message-ID: <1991Mar16.042429.5788@mtxinu.COM> Date: 16 Mar 91 04:24:29 GMT References: <6067@star.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 15 >> Mach is, of course, free to all. >Surely this is not true is it? It both is and isn't true. The Mach 3.0 kernel - the pure Mach system - is free of licenses, except the no-cost license from CMU. It's also not very useful by itself. The only system built around the Mach kernel so far is largely AT&T licensed code, so that part isn't free. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA ed@mtxinu.COM +1 415 644 0146 "I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady. I'll fight them as an engineer."