Hah!

[Piercarlo Grandi]

On 17 Oct 90 00:20:46 GMT, rickr at virtech.uucp (Rick Rodman) said:

rickr> I've been informed by the Usenix Association that they will only
rickr> sell me a *binary* tape of 2bsd if I have a Unix source license.
rickr> So, 2bsd is a dead product,

Maybe 2BSD is not a product, but a set of unofficial patches (well,
quite extensive :->) to the licensed AT&T UNIX V7 source product. Maybe
Usenix is not in the business of selling tapes, but it does the favour
of distributing patches to duly licensed members of the public for a
reimbursment of costs. Maybe tapes are always encoded in binary, unless
you have a fifties vintage russian computer (trinary).

Maybe if you what you want is not a binary tape with the 2BSD sources on
it, but a binary sublicense to Unix V7 and a software product (on binary
tapes or floppies or wahtever) covered by that binary sublicense and
incorporating most of the 2BSD patches you could call your nearest DEC
sals office and ask them for material on Ultrix-11.

rickr> and the presence of this group on the net is an abuse of public
rickr> money. To quote Ken Olsen: "Unix is snake oil."

I cannot follow your logic, but maybe "ab falso omnia sequitur" (If i
remember well the relevant phrase).
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