Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:32:28 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> Cc: Arthur Kelly <arthur@sevenkings.net>, hemos <hemos@slashdot.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/BSDI Merger Message-ID: <20000305003228.E14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <0e3a01bf866d$4cd75180$0200000a@danco.home>; from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 10:37:32PM -0800 References: <0e3a01bf866d$4cd75180$0200000a@danco.home>
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* Dan O'Connor <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> [000304 23:09] wrote: > >I expect many people would like to see a merger of the best features > >from both. What would be the point of merging without having that as > >an objective? > > Well, if this were say, a Microsoft merger, the point would be to kill-off > the (free) competition so the commercial product could flourish > unhindered. > > Let's hope the BSD world is a little more honorable... This concern is almost totally unneeded, the code is free and there would be nothing stopping a few wounded individuals from starting thier own distro should "the worse" happen. All you'd have to do is point your cvsup clients somewhere else. :) You may be able to kill the name "FreeBSD" but you can't kill the code that it's made of. Finally, let's not get ahead of ourselves spreading... oh god, i'm going to say it... FUD. The sky isn't falling in fact it looks like the clouds may part and bring us some really interesting and exciting technology. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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