From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 29 12:48:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gdead.adm.ispchannel.net (gdead.adm.ispchannel.net [208.138.36.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97E0153B6 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@gdead.adm.ispchannel.net) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by gdead.adm.ispchannel.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA05644; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:48:08 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: Mark Ovens Cc: "Gray, David W." , "'FreeBSD Chat List'" Subject: Re: distro? Message-ID: <19990629124808.A5618@gdead.adm.ispchannel.net> Reply-To: jgrosch@ispchannel.com References: <01D4D419B1A4D111A30400805FE65B133B0D60@nmrusdunsx1.nielsenmedia.com> <19990629203135.A253@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990629203135.A253@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 08:31:35PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 08:31:35PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 09:52:22AM -0400, Gray, David W. wrote: > > At the computer show this weekend, saw a FreeBSD 3.2 cdrom set at a local > > vendor's stand. Didn't look exactly like the set I got on subscription, so I > > took a second look. > > > > Who is Greenbay Software? This was a knock-off of the Walnut Creek > > distribution, all 4 disks of it. I didn't buy it (Hey, I already HAVE 3.2), > > but it appears to be a close clone of the WC set. Does not Walnut Creek have > > a compilation copyright on the distribution? I'm glad to see FreeBSD out > > there (scads of RedHat and Caldera around), but this is a little too close > > to the bone. (They wanted $29.95 for it, so its not even a Cheapbytes sort > > of thing.) Anybody know about this? > > Yea, saw that at the Install-A-Thon, bought a copy. It has no image of "chuck" so there is no copyright issue there. It looks like they are claiming copyright for FreeBSD but maybe I'm being a little sensitive. The funny thing is they list www.freebsd.org for support. Hav'nt tried to use it to install yet. Maybe I can find time tonight. Josef -- Josef Grosch | FreeBSD 3.2 | Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group jgrosch@ispchannel.com | www.freebsd.org | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message