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- From: darylm@sequent.com (Daryl V. McDaniel)
- Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.204627.24549@sequent.com>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:46:27 GMT
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- gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert) writes:
-
- >...
- > Berkeley could conceivably pull the right for USL to
- >resell anything with "Copyright the Regents..." in it,
- >or derived therefrom.
-
- I have scanned many of the Berkeley contributed portions of SVR4 (using strings
- for binaries, etc) and haven't seen any Copyright notice mentioning Berkeley.
-
- For example: The /usr/ucblib/makewhatis script is IDENTICAL to the makewhatis
- script in the Net-2 release except that in SVR4 the "Regents" copyright is
- replaced with Copyright notices from USL, Microsoft, and Sun. In addition,
- while makewhatis works fine on BSD4.X, it doesn't work in SVR4 because of
- restrictions on command line length. This is compounded by USL moving all
- of section-8 into section-1. Add X, networking, and developers man pages
- and it becomes even imposible to do a "ls /usr/share/man/man1/*n".
-
- In the first three months of using SVR4, we submitted 168 bugs against
- SVR4 to our vendor. Ten of these bugs are of a nature to prevent our intended
- use of the system (login accounting broken, for one). Over 80% of the bugs
- were directly attributable to USL. The remaining bugs MAY have been
- introduced by the vendor.
-
- Monday, I sent off a check to BSDI. With sources and the quality inherent in
- the BSD code, I KNOW that I will be able to get a stable system running within
- a couple months. I KNOW that SVR4 will NEVER be of sufficient quality to stake
- my company's livelyhood on. I think that USL knows that they have a garbage
- product and is frightened by the prospect of an affordable, supported,
- POPULAR, quality OS competing with them.
-
- These views are entirely mine. They do not represent the views of Micronetics,
- or any customers or clients of Micronetics.
- --------
- Daryl V. McDaniel (503) 643-6137
- Micronetics
- Aloha Research Group darylm@illian.mnet.com
- Beaverton, Oregon USA
-