Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:10:20 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anonymous flame received (Was: Linus on IRC) Message-ID: <199902111010.FAA03799@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990210143806.040cfed0@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Feb 10, 99 02:51:24 pm"
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Brett Glass said: > > >GPL or BSD licenses have zilch to do with it. > > My original point was that the GPL does nothing to prevent code > forking. Whoever you are, you seem to be supporting my point. > I agree -- critical mass of developers on the Net is what keeps the code from forking. (Or actually, it is a deterrent.) It seems to me that Linux distributions are forked from many more vendors than FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or yadaBSD. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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