On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:01, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > Mark C. Ballew wrote: > > Of course, there is always Freebsd (but that's not a desktop OS! BSD > > is dying! arrr!). > > Where'd that come from? I'm running FreeBSD as a desktop distro right
... > Where did you hear BSD is dying? And don't tell me you actually > believed it! > > Cheers, > Tim Hammerquist I'll post the same reply that I gave to some people who mailed me offline: I don't think BSD is dying, but there are a lot of trolls on the Internet who make this claim. I was simply trolling myself. Anyway, the "BSD is dying" claim comes from back in the 80's with the USL (AT&T) vs. BSD lawsuit (http://happy-hacking.homeunix.org/~gilb/usl_bsd/index.html). At that point, BSD was dying, because people were afraid to use it for fear of being sued. USL settled out of court; however, because it was determined that most of USL's code was actually BSD's code sans copywrite notices, and the settlement was that USL could never make claim to BSD's code again. Think "SCO vs. Linux" today. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
