Re: Specialized software

Article View: gnu.misc.discuss

Article #74078

#74078

From: Garrett Wollman
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1991 04:56

26 lines
1738 bytes

Hell, who needs a commercial desktop publishing system anyway when we
have Andrew v17 already here!  [Or rather, by ftp to
emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu; get andrew.tar.Z, about 11 or so Megs long.]
Almost(*) New Berkeley terms and everything.  And get this...the
copyright is owned by IBM!

[It's a pity that AFS(**) is a commercial product, though.]

-GAWollman

(*)The terms, unlike New Berkeley (which isn't so new any more but
that's what I'm used to calling it), also forbid commercial entities
(obviously other than IBM) to sell Andrew software.  But they could
always give the software away for free and sell support...

(**) AFS, which began life as the Andrew File System, is a product of
Transarc Corporation.  It forms the basis of the distributed
file-system (DFS) component of OSF's DCE.(***)

(***) TDM TLA.

Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never
mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1991Jul10.045647.23819@uvm.edu>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!hsdndev!dartvax!mars.caps.maine.edu!nic!kira!emily!wollman

References:

<1991Jul7.140843.26769@eedsp.gatech.edu> <1991Jul8.094742.20455@cs.sfu.ca> <1991Jul9.174340.27496@beaver.cs.washington.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f8ba9bb4a8fd2d37
X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-10 09:32:53 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!paperboy!hsdndev!dartvax!mars.caps.maine.edu!nic!kira!emily!wollman
From: wollman@emily.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Specialized software
Message-ID: <1991Jul10.045647.23819@uvm.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 91 04:56:47 GMT
References: <1991Jul7.140843.26769@eedsp.gatech.edu> <1991Jul8.094742.20455@cs.sfu.ca> <1991Jul9.174340.27496@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Sender: news@uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont - EMBA Computing Facility
Lines: 26

Reply to Parent Message