Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:22:23 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Linux is UNIX, and FreeBSD is not?" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980604085338.443A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806041128.NAA20861@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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>That article essentially says that there are efforts -- >supported by The Open Group -- to get Linux the "UNIX98" >brand. This is a total vent but I have to get this off my chest. The Open Group: Now there is a contradiction in terms. Call my observation myopic if you like. TOG seems to be engaged in the process of ENCUMBERING any thing they can get their hands on. I really don't like anything I read from them. I can't understand why orgs line up to get some stupid brand from them for there OS. Special Offer - This month only! You can name FreeBSD "Jason Wells" if you pay me a fat royalty for doing absolutely nothing. In the mean time, you better start paying me a fat royalty for the Free GUI from MIT you have been using all along. I don't care how much you helped me develop it in the past. Funny that Mr. Torvalds would chide TOG for it's handling of X and now we may see TOG branded Linux. That is funny (I am not laughing). Licensing makes for strange bedfellows. If this happens, it is an attempt by TOG to get back in bed with the free software community after the X licensing change. Almost no one that I know of supported their decision. I say the entire Linux camp and the TOG can go sleep in the doghouse together. (37 expletives deleted in the interest of decorum. Insert expletive at random for proper reading of this message.) Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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