Mo McKinlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, what I find more amusing is the fact that BSD is a free
> replacement for UNIX. Which is exactly what the GNU project aims for,
> albeit with different licensing terms. I fail to see how BSD *can* be
> "pure UNIX", when "pure UNIX" is exactly what BSD was created to provide
> an alternative for.
Wrong. Or rather, we are talking about different things. You are talking about
"BSD derivatives" like BSDI and Free/Net/OpenBSD. I'm talking about the actual
BSD, i.e., Berkeley Software Distribution, the 9-track tape shipped from UC
Berkeley for bootstrapping huge 3-phase VAXen. That one *is* pure UNIX: it is
an incremental improvement on V7 and 32V, has 100% of Ritchie and Thompson's
original UNIX code in it just like V7 and 32V, is 100% faithful to pure UNIX in
ideology and all design decisions, and requires a UNIX source license (pure
UNIX does not exist in binary-only form, never did, and never will). And it
isn't free in terms of power alone. Have you ever seen an electric bill for a
VAX-11/780?
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