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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When did this become linux.advocacy
Date: 24 Jun 1995 13:07:32 +0200
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Nick Kralevich <nickkral@octans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

>I agree.  On cross fertilization:  One day, try the following.
>Download both the Linux kernel 
>
...
>and the FreeBSD kernel
...
>On the FreeBSD kernel, type "grep -i linux `find . -name '*' -print`"
>and on the Linux kernel type "grep -i freebsd `find . -name '*' -print`".
>There is about 4-10 times more references to Linux in the FreeBSD 
>source code then there are references to FreeBSD in the Linux 
>source code.  Interesting.

To be fair, you should use "grep -i bsd `find . -name '*' -print`".

Anyway, this is kinda silly at all.  Re-usage of code is a Good Thing
[tm] (so it's rather awful that the Linux folks appear to be less
interested in taking over things from FreeBSD), and given the fact
that the GPL is considered to be a show-stopper for many things where
(Free)BSD would like to be present it's rather a good sign that
there's a lot of Linux code now in FreeBSD despite of this.

(Please, *NO* copyright debates here.  There are points for both
sides, and we all do know them.)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)