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#! rnews 2421 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!van-bc!n1van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!ott.istar!istar.net!gateway.qnx.com!not-for-mail From: doug@qnx.com (Doug Santry) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 28 Jan 1997 13:54:23 -0500 Organization: QNX Software Systems Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5cli0v$fmf@qnx.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32EA25AB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5qC7y0gTzDLB091yn@ibm.net> <5cjrh1$gcv$1@Venus.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qnx.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:152583 comp.os.linux.networking:65094 comp.os.linux.setup:92364 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5617 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1929 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:50216 comp.os.os2.advocacy:261847 In article <5cjrh1$gcv$1@Venus.mcs.net>, Leslie Mikesell <les@MCS.COM> wrote: >In article <5qC7y0gTzDLB091yn@ibm.net>, >Mouth of the South <mouth@ibm.net> wrote: > >In other words, any greedy corporation can take the BSD source code, >add a few features to make a derived work, and sell their derived work >without revealing their source code, right? Yup. Sun, HP, DEC, almost everybody did. And look what happened, it is called the internet and berkeley code built it. >BSD, on the other hand, is like fission where it becomes divided and loses >energy every time some greedy bozo tries to hide the source code for their >derivative work. Whatever, Berkeley networking code was taken by every major workstation vendor and it *exploded* across the planet. And that made TCP/IP the protocol of choice. The only GPLed code that comes close to the impact that BSD has had on the world is the free compiler.(gcc) The BSD project at the CSRG is dead but BSD was *the* most influential system on Unix. You can't name a major OS that doesn't have support for the socket API. It came from BSD. Its impact on Unix is astounding. Reliable signals came from BSD, VM and demand paging came from BSD. The BSD license is very open and the resulting code literally changed the world. To say it "loses energy" is just plain silly. DJS