Dag-Erling, I remember you quite well as a core developer, so I don't doubt that your knowledge of history is better than mine. Thank you both for the corrections.
AFA pitchers of beer, it was meant as a friendly dig on an insider's list and not meant as disrespect for Kirk's achievements, which have far more to do with all of us being here today than I do. :D 2009/9/28 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no>: > Don Wilde <dwil...@gmail.com> writes: >> What is incorrect, Julian? > > Pretty much everything about the lawsuit. > > http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html > http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/USLsettlement.pdf > > I found the phrase "everything developed before 1970" particularly > amusing, as it translates to approximately zero, plus or minus zero. > > Oh, and pretty much everything else as well. > > The practice of sharing source code without compensation (and the term > "copyleft") can be traced to a hobbyist magazine that later developed > into Dr Dobb's, and predates 3BSD (1BSD and 2BSD were only add-ons, not > OS distributions) by about five years. The first explicit discussion of > free software as such was in an article published in the July 1976 issue > of SIGPLAN in reaction to Bill Gate's (in)famous "open letter". The > first organized F/OSS movement was, like it or not, the GNU Project > started by Richard Stallman in 1983. At that time, BSD was distributed > only to institutions that already held an AT&T source code license. The > network stack was "open sourced" in the late eighties, the rest of the > system in the early-to-mid nineties. > >> He was drinking beer by the pitcher, so I'm sure he was more >> forthcoming than usual. > > I neither know nor care whether that statement is true, but it's not a > particularly nice thing to say about anyone. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no > -- -- Don Wilde " Engineering the Future " http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
