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- From: mrunkel@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Marc A. Runkel)
- Subject: Re: Novell signs letter of intent with AT&T to acquire USL
- Message-ID: <BzqEt8.6CK@nic.umass.edu>
- Keywords: UNIX, SVR4, USL, Novell
- Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <1992Dec22.220657.9742@novell.com> <1992Dec22.225536.9215@netcom.com> <1992Dec23.164644.24891@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:39:08 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
- >messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >>dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
- >>
- >>>gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
- >>>>brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek) writes:
- >>>>>Novell signs Letter of Intent with AT&T to ACQUIRE Unix system
- >>>>
- >>>>Oh, hell....
- >>>
- >>>an awefully grumpy response. Can you not give it a chance?
- >>
- >
- >Who? I know of two free Unixes, and one very limited lookalike product
- >that are available, but *every* commercial Unix-like OS includes licensed
- >AT&T/USL code, so far as I'm aware. And the free ones depend heavily on
- >BSD code, which is now in limbo due to BSD shutting down, and AT&Ts lawsuit.
- >
- FYI, linux is a complete free unix that was written without any AT&T/BSD/USL
- code. It's available over the net, and seems to be a fairly robust product.
-
- read about it in comp.sys.linux
-
- By now.
-
- --
- Marc A. Runkel mrunkel@titan.ucc.umass.edu
- Network Support Asst. Of course, this is just my
- Registrar's Office tiny, insignificant, humble
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst opinion. If you don't like it....
-