Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:57:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the 'lite' in 4.4 BSD Lite? (n/t) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291856510.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910300410120.61452-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >hey, watch it! soon you'll be another 'BSD snob', but hey > >what's wrong with that? :) > > What's wrong is that 'snob' has an advertising clause that is simply > incompatible with our philosophy and 'snob' was NIH. Fear not, we will > reimplement 'snob' in our new software called 'stuck up'. > > In addition 'stuck up' will have added functionality --recursive so that > 'stuck up' will traverse all users in lexical order. Upon exit of the > program, those that use 'stuck up' will chide those still using 'snob' as > not using the one true 'stuck up' for the purpose of mere spite regardless > of any technical merits of 'snob' verses 'stuck up'. What license do you plan on releasing the re-implementation under? *runs for the hills* >;) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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