From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 19 8:51:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE42C37B492 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5152143E81 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:51:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 17gooD-000JQX-00 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:51:13 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7JFpA3H090028 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:51:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7JFp95g090027 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:51:09 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:51:09 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Has the foretold fragmentation of Linux begun? Message-ID: <20020819155109.GC89852@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *17gooD-000JQX-00*bAehintppfM* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think it's interesting that we have Red Hat, United Linux (with the LSB stamp?), and now Sun rolling their own. It seems that this was part of the plan all along of these big corporations, and this could lead to the exact same kind of fragmentation that brought down Unix in the first place. Will the GPL help, hinder, or be irrelevant to prevent this? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message