From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 14 0:41:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7643737B416 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0721DC389; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA14436; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:41:43 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBE8egN50782; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: Freebsd-chat Subject: Re: whats this?! References: <200112132105.QAA17035@uce55.uchaswv.edu> <3C1954A6.8264978A@pantherdragon.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 14 Dec 2001 00:40:41 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3C1954A6.8264978A@pantherdragon.org> Message-ID: <1id71i9oty.71i@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Darren Pilgrim writes: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > > > > You might have found a feature of some proprietary shell. > > I wouldn't exactly call bash a proprietary shell: Sorry to hear that, because it is one, exactly. From the man page: Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2001 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. That's how you know it is proprietary. The FSF has proprietary rights in it and you may get troublesome letters from the proprietor's lawyer if you exercise those rights outside the terms of your license contract with the proprietor. Proprietary doesn't mean closed; consider patents. The "pdksh" shell is one of the few popular non-proprietary programs. (I don't let software people (esp. copyleftists) tell me what "proprietary" means any more than I let intellectual property (better termed "proprietary information") people tell me what "language" means. It's a lost cause, but I can't resist an occasional rant.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message