jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) (01/14/91)
Well, no slight to Per intended, but we've all been hearing THAT story for awhile now. I've no doubt in my mind that _eventually_ all this BSD/AT&T stuff will get ironed out in favor of the users, considering that Mike Karels and crew seem to be very dedicated to achieving that end, but I wouldn't get my hopes up as to when. In the meantime, perhaps the source license'd people should get together. I did bandy that idea around a couple of months back but didn't get much response (except from a few people saying "I don't have a source license but can I get BSD from you anyway? Puhhhleeeeeze?"). We can certainly swap code between ourselves - no sense in 5 different groups re-writing the memory management wheel (for example). Jordan
dmason@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Mason) (02/07/91)
In article <9101141420.AA19310@meepmeep.pcs.com> jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > Well, no slight to Per intended, but we've all been hearing THAT story > for awhile now. I've no doubt in my mind that _eventually_ all this > BSD/AT&T stuff will get ironed out in favor of the users, considering > that Mike Karels and crew seem to be very dedicated to achieving that end, > but I wouldn't get my hopes up as to when. Jan & Feb Dr.Dobb's Journal talk about 386BSD, an AT&T free version of BSD ported to the 386, source to be available Real Soon Now. I'm personally not too excited about this, as I have a Unix clone of my own in the works, but this probably interests all you BSD hackers. ../Dave