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From: rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Public domain NFS
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.031305.7899@ameristar>
Date: 29 Mar 91 03:13:05 GMT
References: <1161@cthulhuControl.COM> <40519@cup.portal.com> <1991Mar26.171349.16002@visix.com>
Organization: Ameristar Technology, Inc
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In article <1991Mar26.171349.16002@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>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...

	Ameristar Technology built both NFS client & a prototype server 
	implementation on the Commodore Amiga; both were developed entirely
	from the spec + Sun RPC sources.  Like all specifications, there are 
	minor nits that one discovers only after doing an implementation 
	though.  To Suns credit, they run a "Connectathon" every year where 
	vendors get together and test for interoperability.
	
>Amanda Walker
>Visix Software Inc.

					Rick Spanbauer
					Ameristar