From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 20 12:49:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE32337B416 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:49:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:root@y.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.68]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id fBKKnOu14873; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:49:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA14489; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:49:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA14485; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:49:23 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:49:23 -0500 (EST) From: James Howard To: Mike Meyer Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Dirty Little Open Source Secret In-Reply-To: <15393.28048.349600.568435@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: 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 On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. Having stumbled down this road before, let me warn you first of how treacherous it is. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message