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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
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Just think, we never would have seen an Ultrix LAT implementation if 4BSD
had been GPL-ed :) 

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

[...]

>     commercial companies would find it difficult and expensive to permanently
>     split off their own branch - R&D is always expensive.  Customize?  Of
>     course!  Permanent split?  Unlikely.  Proprietization arguments go the 
>     same route - a company that 'steals' BSDized code in order to proprietize
>     it has a greater chance of being forced into using an open standard then
>     it has in being able to force a proprietized version unto others.

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