From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Nov 1 22:48:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA20278 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:48:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20273 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id BAA13661 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 01:48:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 01:48:17 -0500 (EST) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 6am stupidity, and the actual URL. In-Reply-To: <19981102061750.A1862@rucus.ru.ac.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This whole document is laughable. The ammount of facts = 0. My favorite parts are the BSD ones. "Linux is killing BSD Unix" No accounting for taste. Of course the windows of the UNIX world is going to be more popular to the masses. But as has been stated before the *BSD's are not gimp boxes for the home drooler, were a server OS. In that context we shred Linux. And in many countries outside the US I would beg to differ on Linux killing us in any regard. "However, Berkeley put severe restrictions on non-academic uses of the codebase." ??? Someone is smoking some heavy ganja. "In order to create a fully free version of BSD UNIX, an ad hoc (but closed) team of developers created FreeBSD." See above. Im assuming in a theoretical, backwards, time traveling way these statements tie in with the BSD/USL thing. I guess. Id have to be smoking what the author is to understand for sure. I don't tend to believe this came from MS. While possible I find the absolute disregard for facts, and Pro Linux, Con BSD tilt to this a little to strong. I mean if the DOJ has trouble getting dox out of MS, It's not too likely that something like this would just "slip out" into someones hands. Its a good laugh if you need one though. Chris -- "You both seem to be ignoring the fact that the networking market is driven by so-called 'IT professionals' these days, most of whom can't tell the difference between an ARP and a carp." --Wes Peters ===================================| Open Systems FreeBSD Consulting. FreeBSD 3.0 is available now! | Phone: (402)573-9124 / ICQ # 20016186 -----------------------------------| 3335 N. 103 Plaza, Omaha, NE 68134 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting, Network Engineering, Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message