From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 10 7:56: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8283214DDA for ; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:55:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12677; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 02:25:37 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991110105504.45340@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:55:04 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: johnmpurser@home.com, Sean Michael Whipkey , eng@cstone.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Quotation Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991109130755.41940@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <000201bf2b8d$8a81aac0$40390918@home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <000201bf2b8d$8a81aac0$40390918@home>; from John Purser on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 07:09:09AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 7:09:09 -0800, John Purser wrote: > On Tuesday, November 09, 1999 10:08 AM, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, 9 November 1999 at 12:51:17 -0500, Sean Michael Whipkey wrote: >>> Begin quote: >>> CBSMW: In your current company, Encanto, you don't use Microsoft's >>> software. You're using a Linux-like software, right? >>> >>> Frankenberg: We are using an open-source software product; it's Free >>> BSD, as opposed to Linux. Free BSD is a particular flavor of the Unix >>> operating system. It does an exceptionally good job. The operating >>> system is distributed for free. Those that write enhancements to it are >>> required to make those available to everyone. This has resulted in a >>> significant amount of innovations and new capabilities. >>> >>> From: >>> >> http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19991108/news/current/soapbox.htx?source=blq/yhoo&dist=yhoo >>> >>> (Courtesy of /.) >>> >>> I'm not even going to go into how annoying that question sounds, >>> though..."Linux-like" indeed. >> >> That's not the annoying part. In the overall scheme of things, >> FreeBSD *is* quite Linux-like. But you are not required to make the >> enhancements available to everybody. That the big difference that he >> appears not to understand. > > So, do we have anyone who wants to contact CBS and offer to walk them > through FreeBSD's place in the Open Source universe or do we just sit and > complain about how "They" got it wrong again? It's not as simple as that. I don't believe this one was CBS' mistake, I thin that the quote was correct. You're right, somebody should take it up with the originator of the statement (the president of Encanto IIRC), but I don't expect it to change much. It's unlikely that he and CBS will agree to change the report. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message