Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:47:51 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Merger, and what will its effects be on committers? Message-ID: <v04220817b4f310b1c8cf@[195.238.24.123]> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000313141845.041db170@localhost> References: <4.2.2.20000313132347.041d25a0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313110822.03d71ee0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313103859.0410fe30@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313110822.03d71ee0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313132347.041d25a0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000313141845.041db170@localhost>
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At 2:26 PM -0700 2000/3/13, Brett Glass wrote: > And they'll say, "Well, ours are all called Linux." You have ABSD, and BBSD, > and CBSD.... How is that different from Ultrix, AIX, A/UX, and HP/UX? You're > fragmented. > > They'll have a point. No, they're all BSD, and all based on the same code. They're no more different than the various Linux distributions. It would be rather silly to start calling them "Free BSD" and "Net BSD" and "Open BSD" just because they call theirs "Red Hat Linux" and "Corel Linux" and "Debian Linux". What bloody difference does a space character in the name make?!? > Well, let's see those standards. Maybe if you'll stop bitching and moaning about problems with standards that haven't even been published yet, then maybe people can get started working on things like this. > Until this point, the terms have favored one distributor. It's time for > this to change. Why? Why does FreeBSD have to have more than one distributor? And why does the entire Universe have to change the laws of physics, just to make you happy? > They're different kitchens. Right. You think that McDonalds in Belgium is significantly different from McDonalds anywhere else in the world? What makes you think that this would be true for Linux? Sure, Mcdonalds over here has some products that are a little different from what you'd see in the US, but the base product is the same pretty much all over the world. > The same should be true for FreeBSD. Any standard which required the contents > of the CDs to be the same would hurt immensely. The contents of all the CDs don't have to be the same -- you just have to include the entire first CD-ROM. That's all. What's so hard about that? -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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