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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.mrtc.org!news.he.net!metro.atlanta.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.95.157.4!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:34:56 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33315920.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5fejrn.353.bet@onyx.interactive.net> <5d7spf$8n6@web.nmti.com> <5d9p55$t1h@news.ox.ac.uk> <5dadfr$cnu@web.nmti.com> <n4stf5.tq2.ln@zen> <E6sIEF.1qE@truffula.sj.ca.us> <5gpvf8$4h1$1@usenet.logical.net> <333092B4.7DC23153@webshuttle.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165962 comp.os.linux.advocacy:89611 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2873 Tim Tassonis wrote: > > > Mostly, but not completely. I chose (or stick to) Linux as well because > it's one of the few software products at least partly from Europe, while > any other systems is from America. Nothing against Americans, but their > dominance in the software maket is just too big (not their fault though, > but the European's). So my choice is as well based on the fact that > Linux is more international. > That is an *interesting* viewpoint, but the core team on FreeBSD is very international (let alone the base of contributors.) We regularly have issues come up that the non-US core team and contributors help make sure that the US core team and contributors don't cause FreeBSD to become US centric. IMO, FreeBSD wouldn't be nearly what it is today without the current and former non-US participants. Working together using Email, mailing lists and netnews makes the world much smaller than it used to be :-). We got the code from Berkeley (directly or indirectly), but the original authors of BSD code were sometimes non-US people. John