From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 23:08:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA26169 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA26126 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 23:08:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (ts2-cltnc-79.cetlink.net [209.54.58.79]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA05624; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 01:21:11 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Token Ring for FreeBSD yet? Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 07:21:36 GMT Message-ID: <34f8c398.9396678@mail.cetlink.net> References: <15135.888386736@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <15135.888386736@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA26127 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 22:05:36 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" 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. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message