Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:06:35 +0000 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, veers@disturbed.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL might kill itself ? Message-ID: <19990305100635.N5328@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <19990303223610E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net>; from W Gerald Hicks on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:36:10PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903032212110.2825-100000@shattered.disturbed.net> <19990303223610E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net>
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On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 10:36:10PM -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > > > > A new license emerges: > > > > > > http://www.opentelecom.org/ > > > > > > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve :-) > > > > Uhm. > > > > Is it me, or does that site look STRANGELY like www.freebsd.org? I > > suppose we can take this as collective flattery, but I find it disturbing. > > I don't know our SGML documentation format yet but my guess is that > they both derive from a common ancestor. Nik Clayton could elaborate on > this... Not exactly -- our web pages are written in HTML, just as theres are. The general design and layout does look a little familiar (although obviously not as slick and well put together as ours :-) ). > The FreeBSD team has often stated that the resources of the project > are available for the taking. Even if they had derived from FreeBSD > I'd guess this is OK with the project. It *is* FreeBSD :-) Pretty much, yes. > > So can someone explain te penguin at the bottom? Very very nasty.. > > > > I smell a penguin^Wrat.... > > *Shrug* I suppose that the person responsible for the site is familiar > with Linux. More specifically, the machine hosting the website is running Linux. > I expect FreeBSD to be very popular with the types of developers > who will be interested in this, be patient and lend us a hand with some > good advocacy on behalf of FreeBSD. We don't need to alienate ourselves > from the action. > > IMHO this is a project that is very good for FreeBSD. I certainly hope > that some of -core get interested in the project as well. I believe > very strongly that CTI is very late coming around to FreeBSD which seems > to be a natural fit for those applications. If anyone knows anything about these sorts of applications, an e-mail to them that started something like; I was browsing your site the other day, and was struck by the similarity in appearance to the FreeBSD site at http://www.freebsd.org/. FreeBSD is another Unix-like operating system where the source code is freely available -- indeed, some would argue it is more free than Linux, because it doesn't have the GPL restrictions attached. [ and then start talking about whatever it is you actually want to talk about ] Might be a good idea. N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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