Re: [vox-tech] Installing ksh

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirMAPSac.org>]

ahh, ok.  i just went to the homepage.  yes, micah is right.  free beer,
but not free speech.


i'm still pretty impressed that the source code is released; that's a
major step for this shell.  looks like david korn is keeping active in this
project.   i take that to be a sign that this shell will never be truly
opened.   such is life!


jay, i forgot to answer your question fully.  on debian systems,

        apt-get install pdksh

on the "package-challanged" distributions, you'll have to find it on rpmfind
or hope that the developers have rpms's available.   or compile it yourself.

pete


On Thu 19 Apr 01,  4:00 PM, Micah Cowan said: 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:31:52PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > Just recently: ksh is free, freely distributable, and the source is
> > published.  check out www.kornshell.com
> 
> ksh may be free (as in beer), but the source code isn't (as in,
> freedom), which I believe was Pete's point: It's open-source, but it
> isn't free - among other things, you are *not* allowed to distribute
> modified source (you have to produce seperate patches).
> 
> I'm nearly 100% positive that Pete is saying "free" as in liberated,
> not "free" as in beer.  This is also my chief beef with ksh, which is
> otherwise an excellent product.
> 
> Micah

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