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From: jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PC UNIces
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Date: 29 Dec 89 15:32:36 GMT
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>Sun may have invented it, but NFS (and its underlying protocols, RPC and XDR)
>are all in the public domain.

I thought I should clarify this.  While RPC and XDR are indeed in the public
domain, NFS is NOT.  However, SUN will license NFS for a fairly reasonable
fee to anyone.

     john nelson

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