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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Future at Berzerkeley
Keywords: Leading Edge == Bottom Line
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Date: 3 Apr 89 22:40:00 GMT
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> | BSD code is more accessable; if AT&T wants major innovations
> | under SysV, they are going to have to be more easy-going 
> | with the sources and software hooks.
>   Really? I thought you had to buy a SysV source license before you
> could get BSD source. Has that changed? Of course there are more
> *unlicensed* copies of BSD around, that I agree.

One System V (or System III, for that matter) source license gets you BSD
source releases in perpetuity.  Upgrading from System V Release 2.1.1.4.9.69
to System V Release 2.1.1.4.9.69.2 and each successive release thereafter
is like being nibbled to death by VERY LARGE ducks.

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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101
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