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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.94.215.18!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 21:01:59 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32EA25AB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <m2zpxxtagf.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <32EE6844.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <E504AI.Jsu@bigbird.telly.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155831 comp.os.linux.networking:67061 comp.os.linux.setup:95200 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2207 Evan Leibovitch wrote: > > > It's going a little stale! > > Sez you. Prove that it's stale. Explain how Russell wasn't right a year > ago. Dredge up your original answer from the archives if it'll help. > Demonstrate that you can deal with opposition without resorting to > whining about when you first encountered the dissent. > Actually, it is BSD freedom lovers who have the dissenting opinion, against the big, bad GPL self replicating machine :-). (BTW, I would have loved to work on Linux, but the license terms are yucky, and don't help one of my goals -- enabling lots of little start-ups with good quality OS code, with a non-GPL encumbered runtime.) John