On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:27:49AM -0500, Alex Libman wrote:
| Miod Vallat -
|
| I understand that "there is no plan". How can there be a plan if no one
| has ever brought this up before? A journey of 10,000 miles begins with
| a single step.
You brought it up and it was considered bullshit, so no plan was
devised. You can travel all you like; 10,000 miles or even further (I
have some suggestions on where you could go, but Marco may have better
ones), but this step won't be taken by sane individuals.
| Austin Hook -
|
| George Albert Hammes? I don't understand the reference.
George Berkely.
| Marco Peereboom -
|
| If you have nothing rational to contribute, then please butt out.
I found Marco's contribution quite suitable.
| Siju George -
|
| The way it's looking right now, doing "some thing worthwhile" would be
| to admit that I was wrong about open source software, and, having wasted
| a decade of my life, go back to the likes of Oracle and Microsoft...
| They are cheaper, all things considered. They have never put me in a
| position of having to rely on others. And, most important of all, no
| one in proprietary software has ever called me a "troll"...
So you seem to be a free software advocate, what with your copy free
website and all. There you seem to agree with the principal of
attribution, which I would argue the B in BSD is part of.
What will you gain from changing the historic meaning of the letter B
in BSD ? Would you change the meaning of your name ? It's heritage,
OpenBSD is derived from the Berkeley Software Distribution. The guys
there started this thing and created a community which is still alive
today, even if they're not actively taking part in the development
anymore. By now, OpenBSD is a name itself with a community of itself.
Changing what the B stands for does not change anything from a
practical standpoint. It only serves to deny the ancestry of the
code and you've given no valid arguments to do so. That, plus all the
alternatives you suggested merely show lack of creativity - you could
at least try to be funny while trolling.
I now refer you back to Marco's e-mails on this topic.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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