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Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> types:
> Thus spake Pedro F. Giffuni (giffunip@asme.org):
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It even means that they invent new facts (_Linux_ (Linux is the kernel
> only, not a fully shipped OS) ... first).
> 
> I didn't know, Linux predated the first BSD.

Linux came out with a "complete" system while BSD was tied up in
lawsuits. I think FreeBSD 2.0 was the first version of FreeBSD that
was free of the possibility of lawsuits from the holders of the Unix
copyright.

	<mike
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