From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 20:09:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE1216A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:09:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE18E43D53 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 5726F11F; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:09:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:09:09 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040107040909.GD19107@seekingfire.com> References: <44wu84bk7v.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20040107032103.GA19107@seekingfire.com> <3FFB7F8F.3010101@mindcore.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FFB7F8F.3010101@mindcore.net> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: Commercial Distribution? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 04:09:11 -0000 On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:39:59PM -0500, Scott W wrote: > Note that I don't entirely disagree with the response- IMHO, RedHat and > SuSe are in fact merely distributions, but Linux as a collection of > kernel + core programs is certainly an OS, in the same manner as *BSD > is. I think that if you re-read Lowell's email, you'll find that he doesn't contradict what you're saying :-) -T -- "The act of communication is the primary ethical act....life is meaningful only if the bounds of self can be transcended." - Anatol Rapoport