From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 29 18:36: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16DF14CA8 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:35:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04674; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:57:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: J McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the 'lite' in 4.4 BSD Lite? (n/t) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >hey, watch it! soon you'll be another 'BSD snob', but hey > >what's wrong with that? :) > > What's wrong is that 'snob' has an advertising clause that is simply > incompatible with our philosophy and 'snob' was NIH. Fear not, we will > reimplement 'snob' in our new software called 'stuck up'. > > In addition 'stuck up' will have added functionality --recursive so that > 'stuck up' will traverse all users in lexical order. Upon exit of the > program, those that use 'stuck up' will chide those still using 'snob' as > not using the one true 'stuck up' for the purpose of mere spite regardless > of any technical merits of 'snob' verses 'stuck up'. What license do you plan on releasing the re-implementation under? *runs for the hills* >;) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message