From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 30 12:54:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA17596 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17585 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA10868; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:52:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:52:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: adrian@virginia.edu cc: Simon Shapiro , "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, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > 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. I think he was trying to illustrate what many managers (who have little understanding past buzzwords-fluency) might be relied upon to say. > > 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/ > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------