Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:35:02 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reiser and BSD. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523103318.05193b20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3B0BE858.F738854C@asme.org>
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Reiser is a GPL zealot. Has been for quite some time now. He apparently has aspirations to charge vendors before he implements his file system on other platforms -- in short, to use the GPL as a "poison pill." In real life, this is not a viable strategy. --Brett At 10:42 AM 5/23/2001, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >>From http://steven.haryan.to/interview-hans-reiser.html : > >"Linus put us in, and he is really a very reasonable fellow. Our >competitors (yes, it is quite silly of them to think that they are >competitors, but they really seem to do so and so here we are) really >don't like it, and it is so sad that they are going into this control >freaking jealousy stuff. I developed for Linux not BSD because BSD had >these sorts of inner clicques (and also that Linux shipped a fully >free OS first)." > >I have no idea of what he's talking about, but it sounds... funny. I >seems that when people don't find technical arguments they just make >up some reason to justify their decisions. > > Pedro. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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