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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!junkie.gnofn.org!not-for-mail From: craig@gnofn.org (Craig Johnston) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 27 Jan 1997 23:07:09 -0600 Organization: Greater New Orleans Freenet Lines: 62 Message-ID: <5ck1ht$ovm@junkie.gnofn.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <m23evrulla.fsf@desk.crynwr.com> <32EA25AB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5qC7y0gTzDLB091yn@ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: junkie.gnofn.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154586 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2057 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51154 comp.os.os2.advocacy:263844 In article <5qC7y0gTzDLB091yn@ibm.net>, Mouth of the South <mouth@ibm.net> wrote: >In article <32EA25AB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>, >"John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >FreeBSD is a fully integrated tool and OS, with runtime that can > >be put into embedded product without redistribution encumberances > >In other words, any greedy corporation can take the BSD source code, >add a few features to make a derived work, and sell their derived work >without revealing their source code, right? Oh no, greed rears it's ugly head. Someone uses BSD to make a lil' money by being able to deliver a product to someone who apparently wants it. What a tragedy. <snip> >This is the compelling appeal of Linux. It has reached "fusion," a merging >of diverse elements into a unified whole. Its "energy" output increases >with the growth of its user base, and as more users write device drivers, >apps, and other contributed code, they increase its energy output. This in >turn attracts more users in a continuing cycle of fusion energy. Whoa. Cosmic. > >Since no one can hide any Linux source code, Linux never loses any energy. >BSD, on the other hand, is like fission where it becomes divided and loses >energy every time some greedy bozo tries to hide the source code for their >derivative work. It's those damn greedy bozos again. I swear they must be doing something to the soil. They'll be the ruination of BSD. > >Linux is like the sun, a self sustaining fusion reactor. > Groovy. Do you have any more of that? >Not only do these principles apply to Linux vs. BSD, but also to Linux vs. >operating systems from companies such as Microsoft and IBM, who imagine they >can forever continue to distribute products TOTALLY object code only. Um, I really hate to point this out to you, but perhaps one in a million people cares about having the source code to their applications. Sure, it'd be a great thing, but the market isn't giving them any reason to do it. > >Their darkness will be replaced by the light of Linux. You see, the strategic planners at Berkeley anticipated Linux years ahead of time and developed LSD as a chemical weapon designed to cause Linux users to babble incoherently in newsgroups, undermining the credibility of their movement. Newsgroups line trimmed appropriately. -- Craig Johnston, Sysadmin, Greater New Orleans Freenet, breaker of MS boxes. Speaking for myself and all that good stuff. Contents may be flammable. Free net access for New Orleans and the Northshore -- http://www.gnofn.org Hooked on Daemonics! http://www.FreeBSD.org -- 4.4BSD-based OS for 386+ PCs