From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 26 9:20:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B7037B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E7D43E6E for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:20:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3200F4W01HQF@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:20:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:20:03 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: The FSF makes up tales about BSD In-reply-to: <200209260154.TAA25245@lariat.org> To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.546) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 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 On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 21:54 US/Eastern, Brett Glass wrote: > At > > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#bsd > > an unidentified writer at the FSF (most likely Bradley Kuhn) writes: > > "The BSD system was developed by UC Berkeley as non-free software in > the 80s, > and became free in the early 90s." > > And later, just below that, > > "The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by > the > example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists > helped > convince them to start...." > > It seems to me that those who know the true history of BSD should > protest > this attempt to rewrite history vigorously. > The powered of Rose, or in this case GNU colored glasses. Note how Linux, or GNU/Linux or YoMomma/Linux or whatever was now created in 1984 and not exactly by Linus? There was a register rant/article by RMS where he claimed to have started Linux in 1984. Man I wish I had their free time. --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message