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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Request opinions on bringing non-unix machines onto the net
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Date: 21 Oct 88 03:44:13 GMT
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Lots of non-Unix machines are already on the net.  News 2.11 was
distributed with support for VMS.  Thanks to the wonders of NNTP,
machines running TOPS-20, VM, MS-DOS, Genera-7 and a few others
are all on the net.  Adding a few PICK-based machines won't
make much difference.

...EXCEPT, you better be sure that your uucp implementation on
the PICK machines can be shown not to include any UNIX source
code nor be derived from UNIX source code.  Otherwise, you may
find some AT&T lawyers in ill-humor visiting you and talking
about trade secret violations.  Lawyers tend not have a very
good sense of humor about these kinds of things....
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf