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Article #3183Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Clyde Coffey
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:20
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:20
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risner@heathers.stdio.com (James Risner) wrote: >Boy your green. >Linux can use any BSD code he wished. The BSD license is like the GPL license. >just two difference: >1) In BSD, you DON'T have to release source code. >2) In BSD, you DO have to say it contains BSD code. > >Linus could have used all the BSD code he wished. >He did not, because in his words "it is easier to re-implement than >to understand someone else code." Are you talking about the actual Berkeley Standard Distribution or FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc? Big difference. You can use all the BSD code you want, as long as you pay big royalties to BSD and whoever now owns Unix. If Torvalds so much as studied this code and wrote something similar, he would be close enough to creating a "derivitive work" to get his ass sued off.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.iadfw.net!usenet From: clyde@iadfw.net (Clyde Coffey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:20:52 GMT Organization: j%nki~wÂRJ3M-26XPLZ8L-BFGD44CT-1EA6BC82 Message-ID: <4gjm7j$3rf@news-f.iadfw.net> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4g3t0l$b71@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824606547@rscernix> <mem-1902961857250001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> <danpop.824848031@rscernix> <4ghvv4$p84@heathers.stdio.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal14-20.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82