Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:10:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh <wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Stallman takes credit for BSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904102209570.77613-100000@fosburgh.dyndns.org>
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I found the following on the FSF website: Aside from GNU, one other project has independently produced a free Unix-like operating system. This system is known as BSD, and it was developed at UC Berkeley. The BSD developers were inspired by the example of the GNU Project, and occasionally encouraged by GNU activists, but their actual work had little overlap with GNU. BSD systems today use some GNU software, just as the GNU system and its variants use some BSD software; but taken as wholes, they are two different systems which evolved separately. A free operating system that exists today is almost certainly either a variant of the GNU system, or a kind of BSD system. The page is: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html Is Stallman taking credit for the creation of BSD? Or is he taking credit for the BSD derivatives, FreeBSD included. Either way, this paragraph is certainly misleading and possibly intentionally so. The implication that there is more in common between BSD and GNU than there truly is. It would seem to me that this is a PR problem for us, since more people, unfortunately, are likely to read the FSF webpages (and I got to think page originally from www.gnome.org) than FreeBSD's at this time, and it might cause people to think BSD is a clone of GNU rather than BSD being a derivative of UNIX. Opinions? -- Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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