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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 10 Feb 1997 12:15:39 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5dn3hc$pr7@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <m2zpxxtagf.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <32EE6844.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <E504AI.Jsu@bigbird.telly.org> <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5Pp9y0gTzz1B091yn@ibm.net> <5d81k0$8j4@cynic.portal.ca> <E575K5.4yq@bigbird.telly.org> <5dfmv0$c0r@innocence.interface-business.de> <E59Lz9.4zA@bigbird.telly.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157395 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2429 evan@bigbird.telly.org (Evan Leibovitch) wrote: > Indeed. You are not disagreeing with me. In fact , you are helping make > my point that the GPL "handicap" referred to in the original posting is > a non-issue. It's a non-issue wrt. writing userland applications. Nobody ever claimed they were affected much by the licensing terms of the underlying OS. The only point that has ever been brought up by the BSD defenders is that it's more difficult to use GPLed code e.g. for embedded controllers, where you are going to add a lot of your own code everywhere in the kernel. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j