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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:51:24 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Anonymous flame received (Was: Linus on IRC)
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990210143806.040cfed0@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <199902102134.WAA22603@replay.com>

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For some reason, someone who's reading the FreeBSD-Chat list
is flaming me about my postings via an anonymous remailer.
(Why this person is so much of a coward as to want to hide
his or her identity and/or not copy the list is beyond 
me.) In any event, 

At 10:34 PM 2/10/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
 
>Re: Linus on IRC
>
>Issue 1:
>The Halloween documents have been positively identified as factual
>documents by Microsoft itself. 

It hasn't asserted that the documents were not edited, changed, or
amended.

>Issue 2:
>Debian
>Slackware           FreeBSD
>Red Hat      vs.    OpenBSD
>Caldera             NetBSD
>and SuSE
>
>*ALL* share the same *IDENTICAL* kernel.
>The BSDs do *NOT* share the same kernel.

So? The BSDs share identical versions of other components.
And the various Linux releases are far from identical in
other respects.

>GPL or BSD licenses have zilch to do with it.

My original point was that the GPL does nothing to prevent code
forking. Whoever you are, you seem to be supporting my point.

--Brett

"Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor

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