From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 10 13:20:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20454 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20449 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:20:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA19052; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:20:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990210141609.040cf220@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:20:26 -0700 To: Amancio Hasty , Tommy Hallgren From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Linus on IRC Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902101140.DAA63055@rah.star-gate.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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