Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:34:10 -0600 From: David Welton <davidw@master.debian.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD/Linux 'distribution' Message-ID: <19990220143410.B16910@debian.org> In-Reply-To: <199902202004.NAA10980@usr04.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 08:03:55PM %2B0000 References: <19990220172712.N93492@lemis.com> <199902202004.NAA10980@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 08:03:55PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > [ ... a "Debian BSD" distribution ... ] Woah, there. Before this gets out of hand, please note where I said that this is purely speculation and conjecture, and that so far, no one has actually done any real work, and I highly doubt they will. Please note that I'm not speaking for anyone but myself, either. > > This went round the NetBSD advocacy list earlier today, where it > > was greeted with something between apathy and disagreement. What > > do you people think? Basically, what I wanted to know was not particularly whether it was a good or bad idea (I'm not particularly interested in it myself), but what sort of reaction peole might have - if they would see us as 'hijacking' their work. One of the advantages to the BSD's is that individually, they are "complete" distributions, and maybe someone would take offense at us creating another 'distribution', ala Linux. > It's free software. They can do anything they want with it, except > change the license or claim they invented it while talking about > features that came from someone else's sweat and blood. The distribution would hypothetically be named Debian GNU/FreeBSD or something like that, and we would obviously give back anything good we happened to create. > If they want to do it, I say let them. I'm betting they just grab a > kernel, and the hardware support was why they approached NetBSD. This "let them" is kind of what I was curious about - we wouldn't really want to do anything like this without at least a neutral reaction from whichever group's work we used. It would be a waste of our time if we were openly in conflict with the group.. As far as bets, mine would be on nothing happening at all, as I'm not sure there are enough people interested in actually *doing* something (I'm not one of them, I have plenty of other projects to work on:-). As far as why NetBSD - that was my initiative. Of course, people interested in doing this would have to battle it out amongst themselves over which BSD to use. Also, please note that I am not interested in what is better, as far as linux or bsd or debian or whatever - I don't wish to go down that road, only judge what the reaction might be... So, no flames, please. Thankyou, -- David N. Welton | Fortune rota volvitur - descendo minoratus davidw@prosa.it | alter in altum tollitur - nimis exaltatus http://www.efn.org/~davidw | rex sedet in vertice - caveat ruinam! www.debian.org - www.prosa.it | nam sub axe legimus - Hecubam reginam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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