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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: AT&T/USL CD-ROM Review Process
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.035055.21324@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
- References: <1992Dec14.165913.6896@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec14.181906.8513@nrao.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 03:50:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.181906.8513@nrao.edu>, cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes:
- |> In article 6896@fcom.cc.utah.edu, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- |> >Second, Linux is arguably more like SVR3 (and by extension SVR4) than
- |> >386BSD; this, I believe, puts it in more danger of censure.
- |>
- |> Linux is in less danger of censure than 386BSD since Linux was developed
- |> from scratch without the use of code that is potentially contaminated by
- |> code covered by a USL license. Although Linux is similar to System V at
- |> the interface level its kernel design is quite different.
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- Oops. I should have said "more danger of censure than it would have otherwise
- been". 386BSD, of course is in exactly as much danger as the Net/2 code and
- UCB's right to distribute it.
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- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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