Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:12:14 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD based Debian... Message-ID: <19991124181214.06710@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911241327570.8298-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>; from Bill Fumerola on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:28:52PM -0500 References: <85ln7nn1am.fsf@lflat.dp.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911241327570.8298-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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On Wednesday, 24 November 1999 at 13:28:52 -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On 24 Nov 1999, Vadim Belman wrote: > >> I especially wonder *how* are they gonna to cooperate with FreeBSD >> community? Or will they develop their own kernel branch? I mean it >> doesn't seem possible to have normal relations when one say such >> things... > >> 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 > > Several people have told me that the 'John Goerzen' quoted here is an > idiot even amongst the Debian community. I don't think that 'even' was called for. But yes, John G. doesn't seem to have many supporters even in the Debian community. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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