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- From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 release
- Date: 30 Jul 1992 20:19:39 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- In article <157ovgINN2bo@ghidra.UU.NET> revell@uunet.uu.net (James R Revell Jr) writes:
- >In article <14c63bINNh22@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
- >} Do *not* obtain 386BSD from uunet! BSDI is funded partially from UUNET
- >} coffers, and those idiots still see 386BSD as a rival to their hopes.
- >}
- >} As with other related situations, they have come up with "plausibly deniable"
- >} reasons to not provide information that they feel affects their competitive
- >} advantages.
- >
- >Well, despite what Bill may say or think, this is not true.
-
- I still disagree, and maintain the above. There's an easy way to correct
- this if it has changed, and become "stale" information. I'm waiting...
-
- Have Rick Adams utter the following phrase: "UUNET is unrelated to BSDI
- and does not act on it's behalf". Then I'll withdraw my objections stated.
- Sounds simple to me.
-
- >I said before that UUNET would drop our no-binaries policy when I got
- >the new disks up on the archive, and since I've just finished moving
- >the archive from uunet.uu.net to the new 9 GB on ftp.uu.net, that
- >policy is now history.
-
- I can't verify this, but if it has happened that is a positive development
- for those who only have access via UUNET. It's a pity that this was not this
- way from the start. As the rest of my posting stated, I think the idea of
- UUNET per se is not a bad thing. Nice to know that some people do grow up.
-
- Bill
-