Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:20:26 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Tommy Hallgren <thallgren@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linus on IRC Message-ID: <4.1.19990210141609.040cf220@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199902101140.DAA63055@rah.star-gate.com> References: <Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 03:07:44 PST." <19990210110744.28561.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com>
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At 03:40 AM 2/10/99 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >Linus also mentioned that the GPL is preventing Linux from splitting >apart ... This is a myth which seems to have been most recently propagated by the supposed "Hallowe'en Memo" -- the notion that the GPL somehow prevents development projects from "forking." (Since the authenticity of the whole memo has never been proven, it's possible that ESR or someone else inserted it as a way of intentionally creating FUD about BSD.) If the GPL prevents projects from forking, how come there are Debian, SlackWare, Red Hat, Caldera, and SuSE versions of Linux? (There are only 3 open source BSDs, and one commercial one, as far as I know.) --Brett "Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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