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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:35:36 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"
Message-ID:  <19980410113536.65458@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 02:24:18PM -0700
References:  <025301bd63fb$0b94bc80$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Thu,  9 April 1998 at 14:24:18 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>> Here is Tim O'Reilly's response.
> ...
>>> BTW, the main focus was on internet software, not on
>>> operating systems.
>
> Of course, operating systems are the foundation on which internet
> software is built.  And the promotional material for the "summit" made
> that much pretty clear in its placement of the word "Linux".
>
> If Tim would like an introduction to Jordan, may I suggest he gets a
> reference to me from Greg Lehey, and then I'll introduce him to Jordan.
> Of course, Jordan's not quite the jackbooted dictator(*) that Linus is,
> and other members of the FreeBSD effort have strong ideas of their own.

Tim knows about Jordan, despite his message.  We've repeatedly tried
to get them interested in BSD, but there's something at ORA that
resists.  I suspect it's not Tim (who lives in California), but
somebody on the East Coast.

I've just about given up with ORA.  They seem to be relinquishing
their position as the favourite UNIX publisher and chasing the NT
crowd.  I'm surprised they even had this "summit".

Greg

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