From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 30 08:48:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA02697 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA02685 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa00745; 30 Sep 97 11:47 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01637; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:47:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from atf3r@localhost) by stretch.cs.virginia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA02903; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:47:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:47:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Simon Shapiro cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Good Lord, Commercial Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/