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To: N3WBI3

Talking in circles once again isn't helping you, go back and read your own question,if you want to understand the answer. DUH DUH DUH. Until Red Flag Linux in China, and all the other ripoffs around the world start making free copies of US Unix code instead of the Linux code they're getting from IBM and Red Hat, you don't have a leg to stand on.


237 posted on 10/05/2006 11:38:02 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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To: Golden Eagle
You said: Linux has "resulted in our Unix technology being transferred into it and subsequently given away to the rest of the world for free."

I asked: "And BSD did not give away US UNIX technology how?" After all the BSD licenses not only gives away the technology it allows whoever takes (say China) it to improve it on their own and sell their improved Unix technology back to us without giving us the improvements on 'our technology". I wanted to know why it was ok for BSD to give away UNIX technology but not Linux?

You said: "BSD is crude and doesn't scale well, DUH." So your answer was its ok for BDS because its crude and does not scale well..

Because you sated a lie as a fact I sarcastically said "We will have to tell Apple that...". At this point you could have tried to defend or qualify your lie (bsd is crude and does not scale) what did you do?

You said "Apple isn't free DUH AGAIN."

Because rather than try to defend a lie about BSD being crude or admit you were wrong/lied) you tried to spin the lie. but while Apples interface is not free Darwin the power behind it is BSD and is most certainly free. So the power behind Apple supercomputers is out there free and actually give more rights to foreign powers of "our UNIX technology" than Linux does.

239 posted on 10/05/2006 12:22:43 PM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: Golden Eagle
Until Red Flag Linux in China, and all the other ripoffs around the world start making free copies of US Unix code instead of the Linux code they're getting from IBM and Red Hat, you don't have a leg to stand on.

This is almost too easy. Two of the most popular BSD ("US Unix") variants are OpenBSD and NetBSD. Theo de Raadt, a South African, was a founding member of NetBSD and is the founder of OpenBSD. MicroBSD is from Bulgaria, and PicoBSD is from Poland.

There's your foreigners "making free copies of US Unix code." Game, set, match, slam-dunk, home run, töööööör! This is fun.

251 posted on 10/05/2006 2:38:27 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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