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In-Reply-To: <3467FC52.1C6E655B@ix.netcom.com> from "Jerry Hicks" at Nov 11, 97 01:33:54 am
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As Jerry Hicks wrote...
> > 
> > If you really want to help then either get some documentation out of
> > Digital using your direct pipeline to God (of course Terry talks
> > directly to God, hasn't everyone here realized that by now? ;-) or
> > get us a free source code license to Digital Unix so that we can
> > crib code from them.
> >
> 
> Wonder if any lack of enthusiasm for FreeBSD from DEC has anything to do
> with Jon "Mad-Dog" Hall's Linux activities?
> 
> I bet the Linux porters *do* have access to the aforementioned source
> code.  And probably a goodly share of other DEC resources as well.

They better keep their mouths VERY shut in that case. Working from D-Unix
source to include things in freely distributable Unix source code is
most likely a really fast way to resign from Digital.

Getting access to D-Unix source code involves signatures here and there.

Wilko (who has checked this inside Digital)
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