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Date:      02 Apr 1999 18:40:29 -0600
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
Cc:        "'Chuck Robey'" <chuckr@mat.net>, "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com>, DL-ADM <DLADM@anheuser-busch.com>, "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: AIX going BSD
Message-ID:  <86zp4qo7sy.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
In-Reply-To: Ladavac Marino's message of "Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:54:03 %2B0200"
References:  <97A8CA5BF490D211A94F0000F6C2E55D097586@s-lmh-wi-900.corpnet.at>

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>> AIX is *not* doing anything at all outside the usual, and it would,
>> in fact, be remarkable (and outside the expected norm) if you
>> *didn't* find some BSD code in it.  Why don't you go look at, oh,
>> Hewlett Packard, or some other mainstream vendor?
> [ML]  I'm afraid you are not getting it.
> I was actually commending IBM/AIX on its good taste in choice of
> source bits (i.e. ours and NetBSD's) and actually acknowledging that (by
> not removing the RCS id lines).

I've always been amused that AIX left the fortunes in the file that
disparage IBM.

Cheers,
joelh

-- 
Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org
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