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From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Legal status of NetBSD
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Date: 25 Jul 1994 10:46:53 -0400
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Charles M. Hannum (mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote:
: Thus, as you can infer for yourself, NetBSD 1.0 is not encumbered by
: USL.
: (Now, I'd like to request that all of the people who had the nerve to
: publicly rant about how `unclean' NetBSD is, GO AWAY.
: And I mean this
: in the nicest way I can, considering how much of my time has been
: wasted in this absolutely stupid and useless thread, and considering
: how rude and insulting the statements and insinuations about us have
: been.)
You know, as a freely-available-BSD newbie, I have just sat back and
enjoyed the fireworks. But, enough is enough. In the immortal
words of Butthead: "Chill, Beavis"
The only reason your time has been wasted is because you are bound and
determined to have the last word. If you were concerned about time
being wasted, you wouldn't be reading USENET in the first place.
Why is it so goddam difficult to comprehend that the FreeBSD core-team
members had one helluva time dealing with USL, and don't want to go
through it again? All Nate and the others have said is that IF USL
WANTS TO PLAY DIRTY, YOU COULD GET SCREWED BECAUSE THERE WILL BE LAWYERS
INVOLVED!!! No one from the FreeBSD team (to my knowledge) said
NetBSD-1.0 was tainted. They simply stated that USL might try to say
it is, and this could cause problems. I can't understand why this is
causing such a flame war!! If you're complying with the agreement
you've reached with USL, great! I hope everything works out well for
you. But don't infer things that weren't intended.
I am heartily thankful for all the hard work that the *BSD folks have
put in. I appreciate being able to run a very nice OS on my PC for
free. I think free software is wonderful. But haven't you people got
more important things to do than flame each other every few weeks about
something as stupid as what *might* happen down the road, and *if*
so-and-so decides to do something, etc etc ad nauseum?!
I'll go back to watching the fireworks now, as this will probably have
no effect on anyone ;)
Jeff
--
Jeff Aitken jaitken@vt.edu
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something stupid gets
peoples' attention