OS costs

David S. Herron david at twg.com
Wed Sep 12 07:17:01 AEST 1990


In article <70400021 at m.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>/* Written  4:19 pm  Sep  7, 1990 by cgwst at unix.cis.pitt.edu in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */
>/* ---------- "Re: OS costs" ---------- */
>[ ... ] MACH is going to become freeware.
>/* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */
>I find this difficult to believe, since currently MACH requires both a 
>Berkeley and an AT&T source license. (At least, that's the word from the CMU
>MACH people).

Believe it..

CMU's plan is to do whatever they can to free it from the little snippets
of AT&T and Berkeley code that are left.

It's quite doable, just takes some effort and time is all.
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