Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Christopher Browne
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:00

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On 24 Oct 1998 15:13:28 -0700, Tim Smith <tzs@halcyon.com> wrote:
>In article <F0tLMp.4uI@a2e.de>, PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de> wrote:
>>Is Cygnus solely service-based? no proprietary code core?
>>(even SuSE and Redhat have a proprietary core)
>
>What is in this alleged RedHat proprietary core?

Their newfangled hard drive partitioning scheme, whose name escapes me,
is not "source available," and is not found anywhere other than on boot
disks... 

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From: cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/27
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