RE: [SLUG] Bell Labs and Other Less Notables

["Gardiner, Stewart" <Stewart.Gardiner@nospam.compaq.com>]

Actually....on the subject of Bell Labs, I cant remember where I read it but
Bell labs have made their Unix based Plan 9 OS Open source now :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Parnell [mailto:gripz@nospam.linuxfreak.com]
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 11:00 AM
To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
Cc: Chuck Dale
Subject: [SLUG] Bell Labs and Other Less Notables

> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 01:40:37 +1000
> From: Chuck Dale <bug@nospam.aphid.net>
>
> OPTION
>
>       An organisation funded by sponsorship from companies (Linux
>         companies, hardware companies, whatever) interested in free
>         software development. But detached as much as possible from
>         developing what the sponsors want, to developing what would be
>         useful for people.
>
>         Has this been done before? There are similar organisations in
>         a number of other areas but what about technology?
>

Yeah... it's called the "Free Software Foundation" http://www.fsf.org
and it's where this whole linux wave started really. If we didn't have
the GPL where would we be?

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