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Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:28:30AM +0100, Paul Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:45:58PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> > In short, Stallman considers the BSDs' "userland" utilities to be part
> > of the "GNU system."
> 
> That isn't what he considers the BSDs to be at all. He does however, 
> completely accurately, belive that the BSDs would not be functional without 
> GPL code.

Would that apply to the commercial flavours of unix too?


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