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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 19 Jan 1996 21:40:28 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) wrote:
]
] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
] : bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) wrote:
] : ]
] : ] Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) wrote:
] : ] : You just "forgot" about BSDI, FreeBSD and NetBSD, didn't you? They still
] : ] : look amazingly slive to me ...
] : ]
] : ] Not compared to Linux! Their are alot of talented BSD people who could
] : ] be helping the Linux group but instead just in the UNIX tradition you
] : ] have all these different variants of free UNIX.
]
] : Trying to start a "GPL vs. UCB license" thread here as well?
]
] : Limit yourself to redefining "free" in the advocacy groups,
] : please.
]
] I could care less about GPL vs. UCB license. God you live for this
] stuff don't you? If I don't have to pay for it it's free.
1) This wasn't posted to a Linux group. An email reply
would have been more appropriate on your part.
2) The reason that the "talented BSD people who could
be helping the Linux group" could not in reality be
helping the Linux group is that they don't agree
with the licensing. Since that was your only basis
for comparison (that they "could be helping"), you
are the one who brought up the licensing. Just because
you don't see it as a barrier doesn't mean that others
don't.
] My point still stands, in the grand UNIX tradition you have all these
] different variants of free UNIX all trying to do the same thing, be
] a free UNIX. If the Linux & *BSD camps got together only good would
] come out of it. The free UNIX camps are just as bad as the commercial
] ones. UNIX, making the world easier for MS to dominate with NT!
You are wrong. Their seperation is not a matter of tradition,
it is a matter of politics, and arguing it here isn't going to
decide the original questioner one way or the other unless you
present the entire philosophy of both camps and allow him to
choose on that basis.
No thank you.
If you wish to advocate Linux to the original poster as an ISP
software platform, feel free to do so in one of the comp.os.linux
groups, and the posters mailbox.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.