Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 13:17:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: adrian@virginia.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> Subject: RE: Good Lord, Commercial Linux Message-ID: <XFMail.970930131737.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970930113918.2747G-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>
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Hi "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin"; On 30-Sep-97 you wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > c. BSD came from Berkeley, it is a hack. Linux is systemV like. It > > has a > > heritage of Large Company. Caldera was founded by Mr. Noorda, he > > is > > Ahem! Linux has no such "heritage". That's why it too is free. > The linux crowd just whent the SYSV like API. Designing a car that > looks > like a volkswagen bug, invokes the image of volkswagen the company and > alows you to buy third party parts, but nothing of the orignal is inate > to > the the copy, quality, stability, history, etc. > > As to BSD being a 'hack', I think you do it disservice. Berkeley > has produced a lot of top notch software. How much of what we call the > internet is just Berkely derived software: tcp/ip, sockets, sendmail, > etc. You obviously missed part of my message. I put a (what I thought was) a clear disclaimer at the bottom. This is not how I think and feel. This is how things, in corporate circles are precived many times. Were I to think this way, I would not have chosen FreeBSD as a platform for a critical and HUGE project. Besides, were it not for the BSD project, SystemV will still be swapping, rather than paging, using uucp and ISO instead of TCP/IP, etc. It is healthy, at times, to see how the other side is thinking. BTW, I would not necessarily put sendmail as one of the jewels in Berkeley crowns :-) and you forgot the Ingres-Postgres project. One of the more impressive, and ORIGINAL developments at Berkeley. Also, you ommited vi :-) --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313
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