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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    RE: AIX going BSD
From:       Chuck Robey <chuckr () mat ! net>
Date:       1999-03-31 21:24:24
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Alton, Matthew wrote:

> This lends credence to my lond-held hypothesis that all
> commercial UNICES are secretly floating on 4.4BSD UNIX -
> The OS that God runs on his PDP/11 up in Heaven.  No
> wonder they won't free up their source code.  It'd be too
> embarassing.

You guys are showing snobbery, just as surely as the commercial world.
You forget that BSD was proprietary software for years (only available
if you had AT&T licenses) and it would be very difficult to find any
Unix version at all (outside of that bought directly from AT&T) that
didn't have some BSD code in it.  That's been the situation for 15
years, and now you want to discover it?

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?



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