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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

BSD is looking better and better.

Stallman’s version of “freedom” is that everyone “shares”, whether they like it or not.

If Torvalds loses this fight, watch BSD adoption shoot through the roof.


5 posted on 09/12/2007 3:29:11 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp

Richard Stalin is clearly a communist.(not that it was ever a surprise)

I agree, though I think that Solaris would be the place to be.


6 posted on 09/13/2007 5:38:57 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Thompson, Hunter, Tancredo, Paul. In that order. The rest seem dishonest to me.)
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To: DesScorp
If Torvalds loses this fight, watch BSD adoption shoot through the roof.

There's no real way Linus can "lose" and the only person fighting is Stallman. Forcibly renaming our architecture GNU/Linux or Linux/GNU is not appreciated by many of us. Contrast XEmacs' behavior regarding architecture (which I had control over at the time) with other software projects using GNU configure.

The core Linux kernel developers do not drink FSF/Richard Stallman koolaid and the copyright to the code is owned by too many people (some of them now dead, alas) to get permission from everyone to change the license now.

10 posted on 09/15/2007 3:25:18 PM PDT by altair (Turbolinux 7 for DEC/Alpha is Steve/Linux, oh wait ...)
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