Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!jab From: jab@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Berkeley -vs- Godzilla - (nf) Message-ID: <3879@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 05:04:42 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.3879 Posted: Wed Nov 16 05:04:42 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Nov-83 03:21:20 EST Lines: 19 #R:sri-arpa:-1355900:uokvax:6200003:000:748 uokvax!jab Nov 14 16:07:00 1983 I can't stand the comments to the effect of "Berkeley should be supporting their spiffy kernel or shouldn't distribute it". First, O'Brien's comments that the ethical responsibilities at UCB lie with DARPA and Berkeley graduate students is on the nose. No university in its right mind would ever try to become a software warehouse (and "no, Berkeley isn't one") --- a university's responsibilities are those of research and education (one implies the other, but I forget in which direction the implication points). Second, the AT&T/Berkeley debates are at a standoff. I've heard a lot of pro-Berkeley debates, and some pro-AT&T debates. Haven't you noticed that both ends of the spectrum are SLOWLY moving back together? Jeff Bowles Lisle, IL