From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 13:05:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C065106566B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 13:05:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B83648FC0C for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 13:05:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SwYc9-00037f-Hk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:05:25 +0200 Received: from np-19-75.prenet.pl ([np-19-75.prenet.pl]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:05:25 +0200 Received: from jb.1234abcd by np-19-75.prenet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:05:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jb Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 13:05:15 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 79.139.19.75 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1) Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:05:27 -0000 Sean Cavanaugh hotmail.com> writes: > ... > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/25/microsoft_patent_deal_amdocs/ > > > > The sooner FreeBSD gets rid of Linux-based software (apps, tools) in its > > ports, the better. The FB Foundation and Core Team should enact a plan. > > This should actually happen regardless of MS in the shadows and validity > > of > > their claims. > > jb > > > > Are you referring to actual Linux-based software or are you confusing > GNU-based software? Remember that Linux is only the kernel, GNU is the OS. > ... This is about patents, so mostly technologies. Well, FreeBSD does not care obout Linux kernel, but GNU software and GNU/Linux OS-specific technologies migrated with their apps into FreeBSD. This is a scan of ports with "linux" keyword: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=linux&stype=all It looks somewhat silly to have to rely on those "Linux-whatever" things to be a functional FreeBSD OS ... FUD or not, has FreeBSD examined in the past its reliance on non-FreeBSD software ? It made a first imporant step with clang/clang++ and associated libc/c++ to counter GPL trickery; there could be done much more to eliminate Linux-based software. jb