Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 12:00:19 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, Mark Blackman <tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD/OpenBSD included in Open Source timeline. Message-ID: <4.2.0.37.19990508115859.04443870@localhost> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990508134003.jobaldwi@vt.edu> References: <199905081622.RAA13541@mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk>
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BOY, is this timeline wrong. It doesn't list any of the open source efforts that pre-date Stallman and GNU, nor does it mention that GPL != open source. This is the sort of FUD generated by the Linux PR machine. --Brett Glass At 01:40 PM 5/8/99 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >I suppose, but the article reveals that the writer hasn't done much research. >KDE 1.0 came out last summer, so GNOME is hardly the first GUI for Unix. In >fact, one could argue that X was the first GUI for Unix, since it provides all >the graphics, and the base distribution includes the Athean widgets, twm, >xterm, etc. which do provide a user interface, just not the fanciest. > >On 08-May-99 Mark Blackman wrote: > > > > http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/opensource/opensource_body.html > > > > Leaves out NetBSD(!) and lumps OpenBSD (timewise) with FreeBSD, but > > encouraging to see otherwise. > > > > This was a link from a GNOME story on ABCnews. > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > >--- > >John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ >PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc >"Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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