From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 20 12: 4:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A08119BB for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:04:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25419; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:21:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd025363; Sat Feb 20 13:20:59 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10980; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:04:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902202004.NAA10980@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: NetBSD/Linux 'distribution' To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:03:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990220172712.N93492@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Feb 20, 99 05:27:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ ... a "Debian BSD" distribution ... ] > This went round the NetBSD advocacy list earlier today, where it was > greeted with something between apathy and disagreement. What do you > people think? > > Greg FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD... It's free software. They can do anything they want with it, except change the license or claim they invented it while talking about features that came from someone else's sweat and blood. That's why the license is the way it is, and that's why the Internet's running TCP/IP instead of SPX/IPX. If they want to do it, I say let them. I'm betting they just grab a kernel, and the hardware support was why they approached NetBSD. I've Bcc'ed the Debian guy. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message