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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Public domain NFS
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Date: 25 Mar 91 14:14:31 GMT
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    ...  Is there something that keeps me from writing my own
    NFS?  Distributing it or selling it?  If so what and why?

Only the fact that "NFS" is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Name it "Foo (an implementation of Sun's NFS protocol)" or the like and
you're off.

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