Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:36:09 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118142924.00cb6850@localhost>
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Jordan Hubbard's preview of Darwin just went up at http://salon.com/tech/review/2000/11/17/hubbard_osx/index.html Overall, it's a good analysis -- especially the last section. However, the article was marred by one EXTREMELY disturbing section in which Jordan beat the drum for the FSF's software -- licensed under an unethical "poison pill" license which runs counter to the BSD philosophy -- rather than for BSD-licensed equivalents. Jordan writes: >Of course, the proof that I was working with a real operating system would >be to compile something -- to get some of my favorite Unix-ish software >running on this system. So I promptly fetched the source code to the GNU >Project's bash 2.04, my favorite shell and one that didn't happen to be >included with OS X. I unpacked it without any trouble. (Let's hear it for >GNU tar, gzip, cpio and pax being standard components!) If Jordan is to be a cheerleader -- which he does well when he deigns to do it -- it would be nice if he at least cheered for the right team. The FSF would love to wipe BSD off the face of the planet, since it inconveniently interferes with Richard Stallman's anti-business, anti-programmer agenda. The last thing it needs is encouragement or PR from the one camp that actually delivers truly free software. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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