Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:09:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dyson@freebsd.org Cc: james@wgold.demon.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <199704202009.NAA08472@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704201344.IAA00954@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at Apr 20, 97 08:44:43 am
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> Frankly you NEED a HAL for NT or DDK specs > for other commerical U**Xs because they won't give you the source code > for free (or a reasonable price), and not having the specs would simply > stop development. Isn't this a commercial use issue? For example, a hypothetical commercial user of the code who wants to sell a system, won't give you the source code, and wants to make local modifications, yet not lose the ability to use modules provided by other commercial vendors. We could call this hypothetical entity "Whistle"... Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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