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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The Internet Virus--Another issue
Message-ID: <1988Nov19.235026.29419@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 88 23:50:26 GMT

In article <2490@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> trn@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) writes:
>I don't wish to pick on SUN alone.  It would sure be nice if vendors could
>maintain a system on the network, reachable via anonymous ftp, containing
>the patched sources/objects/binaries for bugs found in their operating
>systems...

There would be some small licensing problems with this, given that not
everybody on the network is licensed for the same stuff.
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