Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:34:41 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org, grog@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <a05101013b83fd20c4206@[10.0.1.22]>
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BK> So, why should we care about JFS? hi, We would care about JFS (i and others with my type of thinking system) because as it has already been discussed for a great length. One cannot judge the negativity of an IBM product or any other big company's product. For argument's sake; Even though FreeBSD is better than AIX (much better), and also free, why do corporates and goverment agencies tend to choose IBM and Sun based products more than FreeBSD. In Brief. The point is, forgive my bluntness, but porting JFS to FreeBSD, might give companies with Terabytes of information on these file system to switch to FreeBSD for mission-critical purposes, even when they know that JFS is under the influence of the GPL License. (no offense), but if these kind of things are to be taken religiously (GPL vs. BSD License), than it would render this whole thread completely illogical, which i have always tried to prevent. For me, any software that comes under agreeable licensing, i.e. GPL and BSD License, MIT License etc. and also has good quality, e.g. GCC, binutils, gnuplot and also other BSD License software is good enough for me or for any other company i would say. BTW: I have found a host, 'Kevin Golding' in United Kingdom has agreed to provide me the web-space sooner-later. I have also agreed up with my friend, who will provide the domain name which will be mapped to kevin's ip address. [NOTE] If you or any other member of the FreeBSD Project or anyother developer has an understanding of JFS and would like to join the JFS4BSD Project, please send an email to hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org (me), with your name and email address, and your area of expertise if possible. Thanks, =Hiten =<hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> ===== -Hiten, Thank You, Yours Sincerely, Hiten Pandya, <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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