Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!cy5 From: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Advanced MINIX (and a fix for strip.c) Message-ID: <1991May7.203106.6186@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 7 May 91 20:31:06 GMT References: <52889@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu In article <52889@nigel.ee.udel.edu> v892231@si.hhs.nl (Edvard Tuinder) writes: >Glen Overby wrote: >> copyright problems with distributing Minix's sources. It's also a LOT >> easier to distribute vaporware :-) >You call it [Advanced Minix] vaporware. it sure runs on my machine :-) Well, everyone who has it seems to hail from *.nl To them, it is real software. To everyone else, it is vaporware. No matter how good it is or how much you like it, if we can't get it, then it is vaporware. Conway Yee, N2JWQ yee@ming.mipg.upenn.edu (preferred) 231 S. Melville St. cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (forwarded to above) Philadelphia, Pa 19139 yee@bnlx26.nsls.bnl.gov (rarely checked) (215) 386-1312