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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copyrights
Message-ID: <1990Feb22.183446.26724@world.std.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 18:34:46 GMT
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In article <12192@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
<In article <6791@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
<>The guy that's writing a freeware UNIX clone... That guy actually has
<>some admirable qualities by trying to make such a huge project free, I'd
<>just rather make money off it.
<
<I don't know how worthwhile pursuing a freebie UNIX look-alike is,
<with Mach being overhauled to remove AT&T license dependency (and thus
<become another source of "free UNIX") and with AT&T UNIX acquiring new
<important functionality at a rapid rate.

	Or with 4.4BSD alapha release due out in June, with hopes to
be completly free of AT&T code by the final release...

->Spike
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