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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:49:20 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Tommy Hallgren <thallgren@yahoo.com>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Subject:   Re: Linus on IRC
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990210224920.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990210141609.040cf220@mail.lariat.org>

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On 10-Feb-99 Brett Glass wrote:
> At 03:40 AM 2/10/99 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote:
>  
>>Linus also mentioned that the GPL is preventing Linux from splitting
>>apart ...

> If the GPL prevents projects from forking, how come there are Debian,
> SlackWare, Red Hat, Caldera, and SuSE versions of Linux? (There are
> only 3 open source BSDs, and one commercial one, as far as I know.)

Forgetting MkLinux, Hurd, Stampede, Yggdrasil, Mandrake, LinuxPPC,
LinuxWare, TruboLinux, DLXLinux, DOS Linux, hal91 (picoBSD like), tomsrtbt
(picoBSD like), Connectiva, Delix DLD Linux, Eagle Linux, Eurilec Linux,
Kheops Linux, MNIS Linux, Trinux (picoBSD) for a second.

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