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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:00:42 +0300
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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Hiten Pandya wrote:

>--- Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
>
>>because it is a lot of work....
>>
>
>[ ... ]
>
>>If you can pay someone else for proprietary enhancements to FreeBSD, you 
>>can pay me too....  this is the principle behind offering both GPL'd and 
>>fee based licenses of reiserfs.
>>
>
>So, putting it in a nutshell, and hopefully closing this topic, we cannot
>port ReiserFS for free, right..? :|  So for SuSE linux users, it would be
>one helluva task to switch to FreeBSD if they ever even wanted to.
>
>  -- Hiten
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You can port it for free if you port it to a GPL'd OS (or port the OS to 
the GPL).

Hans



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