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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Public domain NFS
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.171349.16002@visix.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 17:13:49 GMT
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In article <40519@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B
Bourgeois) writes:

   Is there something that keeps me from writing my own
   NFS?  Distributing it or selling it?

Nope, nothing at all.  It's been done, in fact.  I believe that Sun has
a trademark on the acronym "NFS", and they like you to pay them some
nominal fee to call your own stuff "NFS," but I'm not completely sure.
In any case, nothing will stop you from building the code and selling it...

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