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From: john@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX VS XINU
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Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 21:51:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 27 21:51:00 1987
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> > You apparently need a UNIX source license to get a XINU distribution
> > tape from Prentice-Hall.  This is a diasadvantage.
> Huh! If Xinu is not Unix then why the Unix license ?
> (I'm confused)
> 
The XINU distribution tape from Prentice-Hall includes some modified UNIX
utilities (a standalone C compiler, linker, and library, I believe), and
rather than have a tape with and a tape without, they chose to always require
a license (perhaps because their lawyers weren't used to this kind of problem,
perhaps because they were lazy).

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