From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 3 06:57:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10300 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 06:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from prince.essential.org ([216.0.124.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10295 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 06:57:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from love@cptech.org) Received: from cptech.org (jl@ppp-3.essential.org [216.0.125.3]) by prince.essential.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA25396; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 09:54:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <36162823.4C5A9314@cptech.org> Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 09:35:31 -0400 From: James Love Organization: http://www.cptech.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass CC: Greg Lehey , dmorrisn , Wes Peters , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement References: <4.1.19981002202119.040f7c30@mail.lariat.org> <23307.907176696@time.cdrom.com> <4.1.19981002190913.040f3b60@mail.lariat.org> <36158AD6.811BD16E@u.washington.edu> <4.1.19981002202119.040f7c30@mail.lariat.org> <4.1.19981002211803.040e9870@mail.lariat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > I disagree. Someone who seeks to do you harm is, by definition, an enemy. > Microsoft has not done any direct harm to FreeBSD; in fact, they have tacitly > endorsed it by using the code for the BSD FTP, dig, and traceroute utilities. > The Linux camp, on the other hand, has openly attacked FreeBSD. It seems to me that Brett would like to kill Linux as a platform, perhaps because of the GPL, which he appears to really hate. I think this is a mistake, and not particularly contructive, but Brett has his reasons. At a point, hwoever, one has to question just about anything Brett is saying about Linux, because he seems (to me) to have have lost perspective. And I say this considering Brett one of the jewels of the community, whose expertise and advice I regularly rely upon and value. jamie -- James Love Consumer Project on Technology P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 http://www.cptech.org love@cptech.org 202.387.8030, fax 202.234.5176 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message