From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 24 07:52:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA10943 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 07:52:35 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA10931 ; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 07:52:25 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA09229; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 15:52:53 +0100 To: evanc@synapse.net (Evan Champion) cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Caldera Network Desktop In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:36:39 EDT." <199506240336.XAA03960@sentinel.synapse.net> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 15:52:52 +0100 Message-ID: <9227.804005572@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > My question would be would someone from Walnut Creek and/or the > FreeBSD gang be interested in shipping a copy of 2.0.5-RELEASE to > Caldera with a suggestion that while Linux is all well and good, BSD > is where it's at and FreeBSD is the platform to do it on. I don't mean to rain on your parade, but from everything I've heard, the Caldera folks are Linux and GPL fanatics. I doubt that sending them a CD would result in anything more significant happening than the generation of a few chuckles inside the Caldera project. > Or maybe the FreeBSD project members should look around and try to > come up with their own desktop for FreeBSD (maybe based on the COSE > desktop). At any rate, I think that the interface is where the battle > lines will be drawn and I want to ensure that the package that I love > is able to fight back with a competitive if not superior product. This is a fight I could get behind. Jordan