From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Nov 24 11:48:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from main.apex.dp.ua (main.apex.dp.ua [195.24.128.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AD41545F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:48:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from voland@dialup456.apex.dp.ua) Received: from dialup456.apex.dp.ua (dialup456.apex.dp.ua [195.24.155.156]) by main.apex.dp.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA40112 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:51:10 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from voland@dialup456.apex.dp.ua) Received: (from voland@localhost) by dialup456.apex.dp.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA55155; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 21:48:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from voland) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: Bill Fumerola To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD based Debian... References: From: Vadim Belman In-Reply-To: Bill Fumerola's message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:28:52 -0500 (EST)" Date: 24 Nov 1999 21:47:51 +0200 Message-ID: <85emdfn02g.fsf@lflat.dp.ua> Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Bill! On 24 Nov 99 at 20:28, "Bill" (Bill Fumerola) wrote: >> recompiling Debian packages to work on that system. Reactions >> varied. John Goerzen worries that a version of Debian based on a BSD >> copyrighted kernel would open the door to third parties taking our work >> and making it proprietary, and also that "we are essentially giving >> first aid to software that is dying (and rightfully so) because of its >> license". Many others Bill> Several people have told me that the 'John Goerzen' quoted here is Bill> an idiot even amongst the Debian community. This should be right. Such a rubbish cannot be said by a clever person. Still, being placed on an official site it looks more serious. Bill> Take with a grain of salt.. I expect a bit more job for myself: explanations for some beginners will be necessary. -- /Voland Vadim Belman E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message