Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:15:57 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <3ADCEACD.118161C@mail.ptd.net> References: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104160733390.11039-100000@aphex.newgold.net> <3ADBACF9.E7E3419@mail.ptd.net> <20010417201150.A60285@happy.checkpoint.com>
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Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:39:53PM -0400, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > > On http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html Stallman say, "The BSD developers were inspired to make their work free software by the example of the GNU Project ... ." But > > on http://www.gnu.org/ he also says, "The GNU Project was launched in 1984 ... ." Since the first Berkeley tape was sent out in 1978, it seems Mr. Stallman has also > > invented time travel. > > The first freely redistributable BSD code was the Networking Release 1, of > 1989. But that was not the first BSD release that was distributed essentially for free, even if only to those who had an AT&T license already. It is not the case, as Stallman suggests, that the people at Berkeley were keeping their software secret until he came along, and showed them the path of righteousness. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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