From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 8 9:42:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D89A937BFBE for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 8970 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2000 16:42:28 -0000 Received: from theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 8 Jul 2000 16:42:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 508 invoked by uid 211); 8 Jul 2000 16:42:26 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 22:12:25 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: Joseph Scott , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Message-ID: <20000708221225.B491@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707095841.047c6ee0@localhost> <20000708021509.B1136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.3.2.7.2.20000707215042.04834b00@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707215042.04834b00@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:56:51PM -0600 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >On a related note I saw this interesting article (didn't preserve the > >link, it may be there on lwn.net or someplace) on how the big linux > >distributors aren't themselves using a lot of the software they give > >their public. > > That's because the ones they use are often commercial. They don't have > the right to redistribute them. They put on the disks what they are > allowed to. Read the rest of my mail, and the article I cited (link in a later mail). Geez, I wonder why I'm even bothering to write to you. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message