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From: dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 15 Apr 1996 15:28:25 GMT
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In article <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com>,
Russell Nelson <nelson@ns.crynwr.com> wrote:
>
>See?  Again and again you address technical issues.  Technical issues,
>in general, don't matter.
>
They do if a system is dog slow, or really inept.

>
>But you didn't answer my question: what is wrong with Linux that you
>cannot fix?
>
GPL, in many cases.  Some would argue the free BSD copyrights are,
that is where alot of the division comes in.  I would have been tempted
to work on Linux, except for the GPL issue...

John
dyson@freebsd.org