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- From: phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Date: 16 Aug 92 22:19:08
- Organization: CSUA/UCB
- Lines: 27
- Message-ID: <PHR.92Aug16221908@soda.berkeley.edu>
- References: <PHR.92Aug15151100@soda.berkeley.edu> <63DILTJ@taronga.com>
- <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com>
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- In-reply-to: peter@taronga.com's message of Sun, 16 Aug 1992 14:20:29 GMT
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- In article <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
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- In article <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> phr@soda.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin) writes:
- > If 386BSD was copylefted, it would be Linux. It's the absence of copyleft
- > that leads to the possibility of more than a bunch of random hackers
- > benefiting from it.
-
- >Please clarify this. How is anyone else prevented from benefitting
- >from it? Say, for example, the same people who now benefit from GCC?
-
- The people who aren't hackers and don't have net access, who want to walk
- down to the store and buy a shrinkwrapped copy of GCC with a technical
- support number and related articles in PC-Week.
-
- I don't understand. How is it that these people you mention (I guess
- you mean people who buy NeXT's, or OSF/1(?), or the Cygnus-supported
- shrink-wrapped GCC's for Sparcstations and (later) 386's, etc.)
- don't benefit from GCC? If they are using it productively, they
- are benefitting from it.
-
- The people who aren't hackers and want to walk down to the store and buy
- a shrinkwrapped copy of "386BSD-Lite" with a technical support number and
- a bunch of application programs in shrinkwrap on the shelf next to it.
-
- Tell me more---386bsd isn't copylefted; where can I get a shrinkwrapped
- copy?
-