Extended file system on UNIX 4.2/4.3 BSD

[Rick Ace]

> > Chuq hesitated to overview the SUN NFS for fear of being accused
> > of commercialism....
> > Given the fact that SUN has bent over backwards to get other vendors
> > to adopt the protocol (making specs and code available) it borders
> > on silly to feel that this is very commercial....
> 
> If SUN has "bent over backwards to get other vendors to adopt the protocol,"
> then our experience must be atypical.  We have had _great_ difficulty trying
> to purchase NFS from them.  Have other vendors who compete directly with SUN
> run into similar problems?
> 
> Post away, Chuq.  We can't buy it, but we can enjoy reading about it.

I'm not sure if you'd *want* to buy it.  Our site (NYIT) tried to purchase
the NFS source from Sun under an educational license agreement.  Sun
sent us licensing paperwork for the NFS software.  Among other things,
we were asked to supply the names of five people who would be working
with the NFS software, along with their signatures, home addresses, and
(dig dis) Social Security numbers.  Real fast, I got on the blower to
our counsel, who found the request to be extraordinary and somewhat
suspicious; he advised us not to comply.

And we're not even a competitor :-).

Rick Ace
Computer Graphics Laboratory
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NY  11568
(516) 686-7644

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