From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 13 16:42:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1D337B680 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29550; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:42:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000713174035.04b96410@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:42:27 -0600 To: James Howard , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Pet Theory for World Domination In-Reply-To: <200007132144.RAA09512@rac10.wam.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:44 PM 7/13/2000, James Howard wrote: >BSDi should buy/merge with SCO. > >Now hear me out on this. I just read the OSOpinion discussion of SCO's >future and that a Linux company should buy it out. Forget that, it is a >better match for BSDi. BSDi would then have everything, including a >compiler, to build a full Unix without the GPL in the way. BSDi would >gain Tarantella. BSDi would gain a huge installed userbase. It would >further consolidate the Unix market. There is a metric ton of code there >including the NonStop stuff and all the heritage associated with a REAL >Unix. Hey -- they'd even get an embarrassing sex scandal at no extra charge. Just kidding. ;-) Seriously, it might be a good idea. I'd sure like to see them get a base of non-GPLed code that could be BSD-licensed and replace the GPLed bits of FreeBSD. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message