NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/unix/bsd/4125

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From: [e-mail] (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: selling 386BSD (was Re: 386BSD on CD-ROM?)
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Date: 14 Aug 92 08:24:34 GMT
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Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Christoph Kukulies) writes:

>Strangely, Chris Dimetrios (excuse wrong spelling) recently mentioned
>in a patch he posted that he had put his *own* Copyright note on the patches.

>And he further writes that if anyone want's to put hist software on CD-ROM
>that checking back with him would be required.

i can understand chris. yesterday i saw an ad in the german "unix magazin",
where a company named "tuttle design" sells 386bsd 0.1 on tape for 399,- DM,
which is about 250 US$. they say in the ad, that a contribution to bill jolitz
is contained in this price....

i tried to talk to them, but there is just an answering machine .....

if anyone in germany thinks of buying from them, contact me, i will cut
a tape for you if you contrib 250US$ (or whatever you can give) DIRECTLY
to the jolitz's.

conclusion: in every piece of software, i will put an equivalent copyright
        notice in. i spend an enormous amount of time writing an pccons
        device driver (watch out for it), and i do not like it, if some-
        one else is making money with it.

don't misunderstand me, my contrib is on the way to bill & lynne, and if some-
one sells 386bsd and gives ALL the money to the jolitz's, there is nothing
wrong with it - i would like some sort of centralized version/revision
management for 386bsd >= 0.2, and in order to do it, they need money !

hellmuth
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