Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:48:50 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "j mckitrick" <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, "Frank Pawlak" <fpawlak@execpc.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <001601c10202$44c16640$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010630235936.A90173@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of j mckitrick >Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 4:00 PM >To: Frank Pawlak >Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? > > >On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:24:44PM -0500, Frank Pawlak wrote: >| The GPL vs BSD license issue has been debated almost to death on the >| various comp.unix *. lists and other places. For the interested do a >| search on John Dyson and you will find all sorts of material. John has >| engaged in many an argument on the license issue. > >Ah, great. Just what i was looking for. Really. > >I'm sure the heavies on this list have tired of my naivete'. ;-) > Seriously, this question needs to come up every once in a while, there's plenty of newbies besides yourself that have subscribed to -questions _after_ all of these debates were posted. The one thing in that letter that I thought was interesting is the reference to _stealing_ BASIC, I haven't seen that one before. That should have got your warning flag set because when Microsoft was releasing BASIC for the PC, (and S-100 CP/M I believe) the code for that was all handwritten assembly language. If he had developers that did get a public domain assembly language version of BASIC they would have had to extensively modify it for whatever computer they wanted to run it on, and in the S-100 days there wasn't a "standard" for a computer like we understand the PC Standard of today, so this claim of stealing BASIC is pretty much bogus. (IBM as many other computer manufacturers, like Commodore, also released BASIC rom code and there wasn't any attribution to Microsoft in it) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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