Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:16:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), ignacioc@avantel.net (Ignacio Cristerna), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation: what to (not) do about it Message-ID: <200011070016.RAA26447@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <66527.973550984@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from "Jordan Hubbard" at Nov 06, 2000 02:49:44 PM
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> > The software isn't severable, and it's not layered. If the > > NetBSD rc files go in, then you will have a talking point. > > No relevance to the current point. A proper upgrade issue will take > advantage of such abstractions where they exist and whap over them > with a blunt object where they do not. There will never be enough > "layers" to make an upgrade totally painless and a mixture of both > approaches will always, to some degree, be necessary. That's a silly statement. > > I seem to remember that FreeBSD started out with proprietary bits > > in its installer. > > Your memory is flawed. 386BSD 0.1. FreeBSD 1.0 had an aggregation copyright; you could download it, but not burn and sell your own, because of this. This was later relaxed. 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-advocacy" in the body of the message
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