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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 11 Dec 1995 01:16:34 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Erik Corry (erik@kroete2.freinet.de) wrote:
: Again, there is nothing stopping someone bringing in the FreeBSD model
: if they prefer, but personally I find the multiplicity of BSD versions
: (FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSDI, and now OpenBSD) a sign that your way of doing
: things isn't without its problems, either. This must represent a similar
: duplication of effort to the effort that goes into maintaining Linux
: patch files. At least the patch files and new architectures are merged
: into Linux eventually: is there an effort to reunify NetBSD and FreeBSD?
Is there an effort to unify the different versions of Linux out there?
The *BSD groups all have their own agendas.
FreeBSD - optimized BSD for Intel hardware.
NetBSD - many architectures with a unified source tree.
BSDI - commercial BSD.
OpenBSD - BSD from a disgruntled developer.
Why unify them?
Why not unify Linux?
: ego-clashes. In the Linux community, we have so much respect for Linus
: that such a clash has never been able to split the kernel.
This has already happened.
: You say the FreeBSD kernel is 'unencumbered with the GPL'. The GPL
: may be an encumberance to you, but to Linux/GNU developers, the
: BSD license is also an encumberance: which means you can't use
: BSD code in the Linux kernel or in a GPL'ed application.
: The other major encumberance of the GPL is that noone can 'do a BSDI'
: with Linux, i.e. copy the code and create a private version. That's not
: perceived as a disadvantage by most Linux developers, in fact for many
: it is a prerequisite. For example, Alan Cox has stated that he does
: GPL development for free, but wants to be paid for development under
: other licenses.
Linus has the primary copyright on the Linux kernel. He can do with it
what he wants, including removing it from the GPL...
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Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
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