Re: Debian FreeBSD
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 05:03:22PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> This is a very bad idea.
>
I have to agree.
>
>
> Some might quibble with "will" above. I think it's only a matter of
> time. We've seen it hapen so much already. It serves our Free
> Software community poorly to produce software that is simply
> proprietarized by any company that wishes.
If we were to release a BSD-based distro, we could have a corel-beta
scenario all over again, and could do _nothing_. Bad.
>
> If somebody wants to do this, obviously we cannot stop them. However,
> we have control over whether *WE* support it, and we must not.
Right. This cannot become official, and we can't let it.
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