From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 20:48:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CD5837B41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:48:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 74941 invoked by uid 100); 20 Dec 2001 04:48:16 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15393.28048.349600.568435@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:48:16 -0600 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Dirty Little Open Source Secret In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218095233.028ea920@localhost> <20011219111842.B2186@tisys.org> <20011219113809.A2730@tisys.org> <3C209385.7A853E1A@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" 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 Gary W. Swearingen types: > I was about to suggest to Nils that few developers will care to work on > purifying FreeBSD but few will object to replacing parts whenever > someone gets the itch to prepare a good replacement and does it. So if I were to rewrite all the parts of the base system that used Perl in Python, no one would object to replacing Perl in the base system with Python? After all, the PSF license looks more like a BSD license than the GPL. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message