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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:27:57 -0400
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Real UNIX history (was: Congrats to Brett Glass for new BSD hist
Message-ID:  <20021009122757.F16730@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3DA3B05D.6DCAD9E8@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > UNIX was free, too.  The consent decree from the Greene decision
> > > on the AT&T antitrust case forbit AT&T from making money from 
> > > selling software.
> >
> > That didn't make it free.
>
> No, you;re right.  It was the "them not charging for it" that made
> it free.  8-).

Remind me again -- why was there a flap, across all three BSDs, about
Darren Reed's "no modification" licensing of IP Filter around a year
ago?  He never tried to charge for it, did he?  What was that fuss
about?

- Rahul

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