[OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????
Aaron Grewell
agrewell
Mon May 17 11:49:46 PDT 2004
But what they fail to recognize is while they focus on Linux, BSD
> is still developing and much of the Linux core which is NOT in question may
> be integrated into the BSD's at any time to provide the additional
> friendliness and HW support that they have been lacking.
This is actually not true. Since Linux is GPL and BSD is, well, BSD licensed
the only way cross-pollination into BSD happens is for the developer to
dual-license the code. AFAIK the BSD developers do not allow GPL'ed code
into their kernel since if they did their kernel would be GPL'ed and they
don't want that. The BSD folks are moving on some of the same issues,
though, and undoubtedly if Linux is found to be infringing and its SMP code
gets ripped out FreeBSD's popularity (since they just re-architected their
SMP code) will surge. All that's pretty far fetched, though.
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