On Friday 29 December 2006 16:14, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > On 12/29/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BSD predated the GPL
Afaik FSF was started in 1983 and the first BSD on 386 was released in 86. And FBSD much later. > > > and has made important contributions to > > > the FOSS ecosystems like vi and the C shell. > > > Also it is not an academic curiosity. BSD is widely used and > > > supported by a lot of organisation. In fact some of the ideas > > > for the "GNU system" have come from the BSD world. > > > > It has. So put in a few lines and links about BSD in the wiki > > rather than ranting about it. > > There is no need to attack people when proven wrong. If you go back > and read your own posts in this thread with a cool head, you will > see that you are belittling all other nonGPLed FOSS software as > academic curiosities. Not at all. IF the FSF had not done what it did, THEN the others would have been history. As for BSD inspite of having all the advantages that they did a full 4 years ahead of linux they have (mostly) fallen behind. > I am not ranting and I cannot contribute this > snippet to the Linux brochure as it is about Linux and not about > BSD. U can add a section other Free and open OSs and link to another wiki page. KG has already suggested that. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
