Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:20:03 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica <lomifeh@earthlink.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FSF makes up tales about BSD Message-ID: <D02AF2D2-D16B-11D6-B479-000393A335A2@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200209260154.TAA25245@lariat.org>
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On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 21:54 US/Eastern, Brett Glass wrote: > At > > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#bsd > > an unidentified writer at the FSF (most likely Bradley Kuhn) writes: > > "The BSD system was developed by UC Berkeley as non-free software in > the 80s, > and became free in the early 90s." > > And later, just below that, > > "The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by > the > example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists > helped > convince them to start...." > > It seems to me that those who know the true history of BSD should > protest > this attempt to rewrite history vigorously. > The powered of Rose, or in this case GNU colored glasses. Note how Linux, or GNU/Linux or YoMomma/Linux or whatever was now created in 1984 and not exactly by Linus? There was a register rant/article by RMS where he claimed to have started Linux in 1984. Man I wish I had their free time. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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