From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 4 11:27:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05951581E for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 11:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@futuresouth.com) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA26176; Tue, 4 May 1999 13:26:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:26:48 -0500 From: Tim Tsai To: Seth Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux Message-ID: <19990504132648.A25339@futuresouth.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Seth on Tue, May 04, 1999 at 02:04:41PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I don't know whether this is the sort of stuff we want to repost (to avoid > the "hey, you're bashing a fellow free-source project!" accusations), but > it's interesting coming from such a well-respected authority. I wonder > whether his comments would apply to the FreeBSD effort as well. My guess > is "no", seeing as we've got common (directly descended? That tree still > confuses the hell out of me) roots. Actually my guess is that he would have similar comments (but perhaps a lot less harsh). Remember that Ken Thompson has been working on Plan 9 and Inferno for quite sometime now (I remember reading about Plan 9 in college in '88). Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message