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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:21:36 GMT
From:      jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? 
Message-ID:  <34f8c398.9396678@mail.cetlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <15135.888386736@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <15135.888386736@time.cdrom.com>

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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:05:36 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard"
<jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote:

>> I guess the Linux folks had a different viewpoint.
>
>More likely they were simply lucky enough to manage to find someone
>with both the equipment and the wherewithall to do the work involved.

>I wasn't attempting to turn this into an ongoing debate.  Someone also
>sent me private mail also saying "gee, thanks a lot for shooting down
>our token ring porting effort, you knob!"

>folks who claimed to be doing the same work ... vanished into thin air.

How hard can it be to take the work done for Linux and scrub the GPL
out and BSD-ify it?

You can't copy code verbatim without plagiarism but all the ideas and
algorithms can be freely extracted and "re-written."  That's what's so
great about freed software.

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