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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Where can I get the best price on Minix?
Message-ID: <9103211741@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 21 Mar 91 15:19:13 GMT
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Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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Rein,

You wrote:
> You(or your friend) can try MINIX version 1.2. It's still public domain. 
> It is not as good as version 1.5, but it works. Available:(?) public domain
> software companies.

MINIX is _absolutely_not_ (repeat: NOT) Public Domain, or even ShareWare
software.  It is of the good old "Copyrighted" type....
The original copyright is (c) 1987 Prentice Hall, and the current (1990)
copyright is also (c) Prentice Hall.

Ergo: it is NOT available for FTP (as someone suggested), and no company is
      selling it as such (yeah, some of 'em try, but they all get sued :-).

Hope this helps to clear up the mess...

Fred.