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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: 23 Dec 1995 10:21:45 -0800
Organization: The Dread Pirate Roberts
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In article <4bbdo8$4sm@dyson.iquest.net>,
John S. Dyson <root@dyson.iquest.net> wrote:
>In article <4b79mu$eui@pell.pell.chi.il.us>, Orc <orc@pell.chi.il.us> wrote:
>> Well, unless you get permission from Linus to use his code sans GPL.
>>
>Here we go again... :-)
>
>Per other previous discussions on the mailing list -- I think you are
>making the same assumption that I had earlier... That Linus OWNS the
>kernel. Well, he owns part of it -- but maintains control of all of it.
Well, yes, this is true. That's why I snuck the word 'his' into
it; I'm carefully ignoring the implementation detail of picking out
other people's code from his as an exercise for the student.
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.chi.il.us
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