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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:24:26 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Please Refrain? (Used to be Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side!)
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101252321160.29258-100000@unix1.cc.ksu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101260017450.7894-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu>

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Is there any way we can restrict this to some other listserv?  Maybe its
just me, but yeah, it was great hearing such sub-par flamage for the 50th
or 51st time, but this listserv gets enough traffic on it as it is.  This
is just a humble request, but its starting to grate on my nerves.  

-Josh

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:

> well, I didn't mean for it to be a flame or a holy war, I just wanted to
> set the facts straight.
> 
> 
> =================================================================
> | Kenneth Culver              | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade    |
> | Unix Systems Administrator  | ICQ #: 24767726                 |
> | and student at The          | AIM: muythaibxr                 |
> | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction)   |
> | College Park.	              | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/|
> =================================================================
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, SpaZ wrote:
> 
> > ARGGGGGGGHHHAAAAA.........
> > 
> > I guess I can't stop this flame/holy war between bsd-linux linux-windows
> > bsd-windows......but I can put in my buck twenty.
> > 
> > Use what is good for you.  aka      "To each his own"
> > 
> > I use NT, 2000,. and FreeBSD.  I have my reasons, why?  No of your biz, 2000
> > for my laptop for stability and compatibility at all my clients, NT for
> > small office servers, and FreeBSD for my web hosting company.
> > 
> > Why I don't use Linux.....not since college......tooo many changes....
> > 
> > 
> > Spaz
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
> > To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>
> > Cc: <GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 8:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: FreeBSD-VS-Linux---Some Venting from Linux's side!
> > 
> > 
> > > They didn't reall cut 'n paste.. but used the same ideas... so you can't
> > > really exactly just grep through the code, but Linus himself has said that
> > > that's where the ideas come from.
> > >
> > >
> > > =================================================================
> > > | Kenneth Culver              | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade    |
> > > | Unix Systems Administrator  | ICQ #: 24767726                 |
> > > | and student at The          | AIM: muythaibxr                 |
> > > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction)   |
> > > | College Park.               | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/|
> > > =================================================================
> > >
> > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Tim McMillen wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > You know, everybody says this, that Linux uses the FreeBSD tcp/ip stack
> > > > and other things, but no one seems to verify it.  Has anyone actually
> > > > looked into the code?  It shouldn't be very hard to grep through the
> > > > code and see.  If they don't mention the copyright and they use the
> > > > code, then that's illegal, and I can't picture them doing that, they're
> > > > quite serious about their GPL, and it's implications.
> > > > If they didn't actually use any of the code, but instead rewrote
> > > > similiar stuff, then they didn't really steal it.  At that point that's
> > > > no different from any other code that gets shared between the projects.
> > > >
> > > > Tim
> > > >
> > > > On Thursday January 25, 2001 16:45, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:
> > > > > > i am on your side just wnated to know how much of FreeBSD
> > > > > > networking code is in 2.4?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not sure, but I think the BSD networking stuff has been in linux
> > > > > since 2.2, I think 2.4 got a lot of FreeBSD's VM stuff. I don't know
> > > > > how much of either is there, but I remember reading about it, and
> > > > > I've worked in both kernels before and have seen some pretty
> > > > > non-superficial similarities in both.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ken
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > 
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