KORN SHELL SOURCE REQUIRES SYSV SOURCE LICENSE, SORRY

[George Boyce]

In article <1029 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>[...]
>I still wish to say that in the long run you will be better off moving
>your whole machine to SysV, whether binary only or source is up to
>you.  The support and stability will be better than you would get with
>any brand of BSD, and the OS and utilities are being constantly im-
>proved.  Many BSD applications will compile under SysV as is, and many
>others will do so with but minor upgrading.  There are also authorized
>vendors (like HP-UX, though they may be restricted to certain machines)
>which let you have the best of both worlds with a BSD compatible interface
>in a SysV environment (or vice versa depending on how you choose to look at
>it :-) ).
>[...]

I know the net will see plenty of flames about what you just said so I
won't bother to send mine there too... [I changed my mind!] But you
have got to be kidding.  BSD Unix is alive and doing quite well, thank
you. The support given to it via the Ultrix development team is only
one example but the one with which I am most familiar. I am not about
ready to even *use* a System V system, let alone use it for program
development or serious applications. I'll use the Ultrix System V
compatibility mode when I have to write explicit System V code.

Send flames/comments to /dev/null. I know people who prefer to use MVS,
so I guess I shouldn't comment about System V.

-George

[Disclaimer: I'm not really me and you can't prove it...]
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George Boyce, Academic Computing, Cornell University
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