From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 20:12:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04954 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 20:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (root@smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04941 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 20:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04894; Fri, 29 May 1998 16:01:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd026044; Fri May 29 15:39:25 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA21359; Fri, 29 May 1998 15:39:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805292239.PAA21359@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 22:39:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, rnordier@nordier.com, eivind@yes.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805292149.QAA07938@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at May 29, 98 04:49:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > License is a good enough reason. > > At what price? I still want numbers. (I've got a primitive test > suite here, but I'm presently in a make world, and want to run it on > an idle machine. Numbers will be posted RSN.) At nearly any price. The main reason most of us aren't hacking Linux is the GPL on Linux preventing us from using (not utilizing) the code and code fragments in commercial products. GPL'ed code is not suitable for embedded systems. I have this fantasy of someone using GPL'ed code for the executive in a missle system, and Sadam Hussein calling up and demanding source code, or that the US cease their "distribution" of the binary code to Iraq. > > Not to mention an architecturally neutral ports distribution... > > I don't see this as a big win for FreeBSD. NetBSD and OpenBSD use the FreeBSD ports distribution. FreeBSD is also in the process of being ported to multiple architectures. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message