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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: The desktop apathy
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On Sun, 27 May 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

> I'd say most users of BSD whom I know use linux as a GUI -- that is,
> their window manager / desktop environment was developed on linux,
> though it may be ported to run natively on FreeBSD.  The "BSD
> community" as such has made no contribution to the desktop, so can't
> complain if the existing options are GPL'd.

I guess it depends on your definition of "BSD community".

Blackbox is a commonly-used window manager that is developed under FreeBSD
and has a BSD-like license.

   Jeremy C. Reed
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