From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jul 5 10:29:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sand4.global.net.uk (sand4.global.net.uk [194.126.80.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5975D14C2F for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:29:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from p09s02a06.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.210.10] helo=marder-1.) by sand4.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 111CYb-0002ur-00 for advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:29:30 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id SAA00297 for advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:25:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:25:16 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD mentioned in new O'Reilly book Message-ID: <19990705182516.A256@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Today I bought a copy of the newly published (May 1999) O'Reilly book "Programming with Qt" by Matthias Kalle Dalheimer. In the first chapter he mentions FreeBSD twice, "...popular free Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux or FreeBSD....". I don't know if there are further references (give me a chance, it's a 350-page book). OK, so it's not earth-shattering FreeBSD advocacy but it's good to see an author not using "Linux" as an umbrella term for free Unix. Nice one, Matthias. There is also a short section "Red Hat's position towards Qt" in which he explains that Red Hat's opinion is that Qt is not free according to their deinition of free. I don't know whether he intends it as a criticism of Red Hat but I certainly read it as such. -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:markov@globalnet.co.uk http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message