Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 15:31:19 -0400 From: Stuart Krivis <stuart@krivis.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reiser and BSD. Message-ID: <14017594.991063874@[192.168.1.60]> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010523194149.04faba10@localhost> References: <20010523190002.A4150@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d><3B0BE858. 738854C@asme.org><20010523190002.A4150@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> <4.3.2.7.2.20010523194149.04faba10@localhost>
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Linux is pretty much a closed system. You're either in the GPL barrel, or you're not using Linux. BSD is much more open. The telling point is that the BSDL doesn't force you into keeping the code open. The GPL forces you to tread the Golden Path of Righteousness. :-) And lo, RMS received the Word and it was good... The outcome of the lawsuits by USL and the others is kind of funny. By tying up BSD for a while, they prompted Linus into rolling his own, rather than working on BSD. Now Linux is getting all the mindshare and the whole Novell/SCO empire is crumbling. (Or has crumbled.) --On Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:42 PM -0600 Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote: > At 12:56 PM 5/23/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> 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. > > No one is EVER free of the possibility of lawsuits, at least not in > the U.S. of A. Whether those lawsuits have merits is another matter. ;-) > > --Brett Glass > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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