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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: Restrictions on 'free' UNIX / 386BSD (Re: selling 386BSD)
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:39:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.073954.15969@kithrup.COM>
- References: <PHR.92Aug15214245@soda.berkeley.edu> <MNDIKJ3@taronga.com> <5146@airs.com>
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- In article <5146@airs.com> ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
- >Apple seems to do fairly
- >well with a freely redistributable operating system.
-
- APPLE DOES NOT HAVE A FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM!
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- Any macintosh is licensed for the Apple OS, but that is *it*. Any and all
- clones that might, or might not, exist are not allowed to run the code.
-
- That is an important point.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-