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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 28 Jan 1997 23:22:44 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <877mkxslwx.fsf@localhost.xs4all.nl>,
Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> The boycott of GPL means a slowdown of development which seems far
> more damaging to commercial use.
What boycott of GPL?
There's lots of GPL stuff shipped with FreeBSD. Just not *in* the standard
kernels.
> Also in commercial settings GPL'd code is used quite a lot. I know of
> many commercial packages (such as several expensive real-time kernels,
> OSI stack software, etc. etc.) that use gcc, gdb etc.
Why look, so does FreeBSD.
On the other foot, what about the boycott of Berkeley networking in Linux,
leading to endless horror stories while Linux networking tried to catch
up with the standard networking stack. It's not there yet.
Things like the quality of networking or the GPL have nothing to do with
which is more popular. Being there first and marketing it best, that's the
key.
The main reason Linux is more popular is because the USL-CSRG lawsuit buried
BSD for a couple of critical years, during which Linux went from being a 386
kernel associated with Minix to a decent operating system in its own right.
By the time the settlement let BSD go forward again, Linux had grabbed
mindshare.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'