Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:47:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-connect.net> Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Good Lord, Commercial Linux Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970930113918.2747G-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970930003257.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> c. BSD came from Berkeley, it is a hack. Linux is systemV like. It has a
> heritage of Large Company. Caldera was founded by Mr. Noorda, he is
Ahem! Linux has no such "heritage". That's why it too is free.
The linux crowd just whent the SYSV like API. Designing a car that looks
like a volkswagen bug, invokes the image of volkswagen the company and
alows you to buy third party parts, but nothing of the orignal is inate to
the the copy, quality, stability, history, etc.
As to BSD being a 'hack', I think you do it disservice. Berkeley
has produced a lot of top notch software. How much of what we call the
internet is just Berkely derived software: tcp/ip, sockets, sendmail, etc.
Adrian
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