Subj : life, then end and everything
To   : Francois Thunus
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Fri Jun 13 2003 06:18 pm

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Francois wrote to Lawrence at 14:39 07 Jun:

 FT>  Hello !

 FT> 06 Jun 03 12:40, Lawrence Garvin wrote to Roy J. Tellason:

 LG>> My choice for going with the *BSD product is because the BSD source
 LG>> tree has been around forever, it's a true Unix, it's derived
 LG>> directly from the original AT&T Unix, and it's very easy to
 LG>> install.

 FT> If you look at the case against BSD (way back when), you will see
 FT> that any code from the original unix has been (had to be) removed
 FT> from BSD. 

Actually, Francois, this is a grossly overstated impact on the BSD Unix 
product. Find the full story in an excellently written history of the 
OpenSource projects at

http://www.openresources.com/documents/open-sources/node22.html

which talks about the history of Berkley Unix. Specific references to the 
BSD/USL lawsuit can be found on the document named node32.html "The Lawsuit". 

 

 LG> Unfortunately, there's always the possibility that IBM /did/ convert
 LG> some AIX code into the Linux kernel, and if so -- if that really did
 LG> happen, I'd want to be as far away from a Linux installation as possible
 LG> until I see exactly who the SCO Group is going to aim their poison darts
 LG> at after IBM.

 FT> Don't forget that there is another possibility: that SCO, when it
 FT> was still called Caldera, put it in there itself. If you look at
 FT> the press release, the publicly avowed goal of Caldera when they
 FT> embraced Linux was to "blend the two technologies together".
 FT> As for IBM putting AIX code in Linux, I personnally doubt it. The
 FT> two systems have rather different underlying philosophies as far as
 FT> design goes. 

 RJT>> I've not gotten the impression that there are really that much in
 RJT>> the way of differences between them.

 LG> Very few of the Linux distributions available today are entirely
 LG> "without cost" to the end user.
 FT> I'd say you've been misinformed.
 LG>  Many of them are only available through retail or direct sale
 LG> channels.
 FT> no. As per the distribution licence, there has to be a version
 FT> available, most make it available by download.


 RJT>> I suspect that they're all good products, and that there might be
 RJT>> choices as to which would be better in certain applications...
 LG> Exactly. I agree.
 FT> I think we all agreeon that :-)



 FT>  Francois Thunus

 FT> "Can we drop your ego for a moment ? This is important." --
 FT> Trillian 

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