From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 2 17:57:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17852 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:57:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kleopatra.acc.umu.se (kleopatra.acc.umu.se [130.239.18.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17826 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:57:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from saska@acc.umu.se) Received: from hirohito.acc.umu.se (saska@hirohito.acc.umu.se [130.239.18.140]) by kleopatra.acc.umu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA16526; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 02:57:02 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 02:57:01 +0100 (CET) From: Markus Holmberg To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD core developer splits up into two branches?? In-Reply-To: <19981103093151.Z354@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > Yet another reason not to read Slashdot. Here's another prediction: > > Microsoft has recognized the importance of Open Source Software. > They are currently planning to defuse the DOJ proceedings by making > all their software sources free and turning into a pure service > organization fuelled by the recognition that no real hacker would > touch their code anyway. > > Likely? No, I just made it up. I suspect that the source of your > message did the same. I can't see the slightest sign of such a > movement, unless it's one disgruntled developer who thinks he can go > it alone. Even then, it couldn't be called FreeBSD, since that's a > registered trade mark. > > David Greenman asked for a URL. Can you supply it? Sorry for not replying immediately. Here is the URL: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/11/01/177215&pid=0#1012 I should've thought twice before asking about it on this list. I feel stupid cause I should've really realized what it was about. I simply didn't use my brain that time. So please kill this embarassing thread here ;) /Markus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message