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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD
Date: 19 Jun 1995 17:22:57 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <3rf85f$bv0@agate.berkeley.edu> <3rkgc0$8o7@beethoven.orc.soton.ac.uk> <3s323f$87p@agate.berkeley.edu> <DAF8C3.5Fw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <DAF8C3.5Fw@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>>In article <3rkgc0$8o7@beethoven.orc.soton.ac.uk>,
>>Liang Shing Ng <lsn92@beethoven.orc.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>1. Berkeley is somewhere in CALIFORNIA, AMERICA. ...
>>>I feel better to write a program for Linux, which is more international
>
>I don't think that's really fair. I've been using BSD in the UK
>since 1983, and it has had many contributions and bug fixes from
>outside the US.
Not only is it unfair, the statement is simply unfounded and the
poster misinformed. Linux is no more "international" that FreeBSD or
NetBSD. The free OS's by neccessity draw on an international team of
developers because there isn't a "head office" situated in a
particular country that hires employees mostly from that country.
Granted, one could considered Walnut Creek FreeBSD's "headquarters",
but that simply provides a focus from which the core team works and
definitive announcements and releases are made (something Linux
lacks).
I just looked through my FreeBSD mailing list folders. Although
the majority are from .com and .edu domains, they were roughly equally
balanced by addresses from .de, .fr, .su, .jp, .uk, .au, .il and .za.
Other countries represented only a handful of times in my sample
include .se, .kr, .tw, .ca, .no, .fi and .nl. Looks pretty darned
international to me.
Just another myth (the other is that "FreeBSD is closed to outside
developers") Linuxists like to hang on to and propagate.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org