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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:15:27 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        Michael Carr <sphaleotas@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"
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At 10:07 PM 6/25/2003, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

>I thought that what was in /usr/src/contrib was the only non-BSD code we
>had in the operating system?

No. There's a lot there, but there's also /usr/src/gnu, which is huge
and includes vital stuff such as "man" (you can't even read a manual
page in BSD without using GPLed code) and (of course) GCC.

--Brett



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