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Subject: Re: Patent  hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?
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> This is a scan of ports with "linux" keyword:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=linux&stype=all
> It looks somewhat silly to have to rely on those "Linux-whatever" things to be
> a functional FreeBSD OS ...

still you are talking on ports.

In what base system rely on linux?

> It made a first imporant step with clang/clang++ and associated libc/c++ to
> counter GPL trickery; there could be done much more to eliminate Linux-based
> software.

#cd /usr/src/gnu/
#ls usr.bin lib
lib:
Makefile        csu             libgcc          libgomp 
libreadline     libssp          libsupc++
Makefile.inc    libdialog       libgcov         libodialog      libregex 
libstdc++

usr.bin:
Makefile        cc              diff            gdb             groff 
sdiff           texinfo
Makefile.inc    cvs             diff3           gperf           patch 
send-pr
binutils        dialog          dtc             grep            rcs 
sort



on my clang-free FreeBSD 9 system.

do not exaggerate. clang move is already too early and IMHO wrong.