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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:57:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        J McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is the 'lite' in 4.4 BSD Lite?  (n/t)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910291856510.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910300410120.61452-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> >hey, watch it!  soon you'll be another 'BSD snob', but hey
> >what's wrong with that? :)
> 
> What's wrong is that 'snob' has an advertising clause that is simply
> incompatible with our philosophy and 'snob' was NIH. Fear not, we will
> reimplement 'snob' in our new software called 'stuck up'.
> 
> In addition 'stuck up' will have added functionality --recursive so that
> 'stuck up' will traverse all users in lexical order. Upon exit of the
> program, those that use 'stuck up' will chide those still using 'snob' as
> not using the one true 'stuck up' for the purpose of mere spite regardless
> of any technical merits of 'snob' verses 'stuck up'.

What license do you plan on releasing the re-implementation under?

*runs for the hills*

>;)

-Alfred



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