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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 10:35:02 -0600
To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Reiser and BSD.
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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.
>
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