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From: o r c @ p e l l . c h i . i l . u s (david parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Linux, Bsd Against NT bullshit
Date: 28 Jan 1997 18:37:45 -0800
Organization: The Dread Pirate Roberts
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In article <5ck713$da@cynic.portal.ca>,
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote:
>In article <32ED4E69.6D70602A@engr.orst.edu>,
>Steve Logue <logue@engr.orst.edu> wrote:
>
>>Linux...is not at all progressing towards secrecy, and being a commercial
>>offering.....There are no requisite tools that are commercial either.
>
>Oh, so the ARC boot loader for the Red Hat version of GNU/Linux is
>not `requisite'? How do you start the system, then?
I'd guess the question reverts to "is there a freely distributable
source bootstrap utility available for any operating system on the
Alpha?" in that case. If not, it's a non-issue; the intellectual
purity of having all the source available (and if there was any reason
to be encumbered by the GPL that would be it) is not better than the
intellectual impurity of having a decent O/S on the machine. If, on
the other hand, NetBSD (or FreeBSD, if the hivemind has decided to
port to non-intel platforms) has such a boot loader, I, as a system
manager who administers a gaggle of Alpha boxes (two running Linux,
one running the wad of license managers that call themselves Digital
Unix) will beg for a pointer to such a thing.
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