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The license?The license?Posted Sep 20, 2007 6:56 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)In reply to: The license? by jamesh Parent article: The case of the unwelcome attribution
> Note that each of the *BSDs produces a full OS distribution in addition to
But distributions compete amically, and core developers move from one to another pretty often. You don't have let's-burn-bridges forks, or follow-our-leader-maximo-to-the-death distros (ok, except for Ubuntu, and it's not a technical leader). Linux distributions have been known to cooperate and even merge.
The BSD forking process seems a lot more extreme
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The license? Posted Sep 20, 2007 22:25 UTC (Thu) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link] With all due respect, OpenBSD is precisely a "let's-burn-bridges" fork. It began when Theo was ejected from the NetBSD team following a complicated and only partially public flame war.
The license? Posted Sep 20, 2007 23:46 UTC (Thu) by sflintham (subscriber, #47422) [Link] I may be naive, and I'm certainly no Ubuntu fanb0i (I run it, and although it is slick in its way, I have had a number of issues which have certainly made me doubt its reputation for a polished environment), but is Ubuntu really a let's-burn-bridges fork? I could certainly see it has some kind of 'follow our leader' quality, but does that really have a serious technical impact? Not trying to be awkward, just asking - while I run it I certainly have no strong emotional investment in it...
The license? Posted Sep 21, 2007 6:34 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link] Ow, seems I wasn't clear - when I was writing about distributions, I was writing about Linux distributions, which seem a lot less antagonistic than the various BSDs
The license? Posted Sep 27, 2007 12:02 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link] >But distributions compete amically
Amically is a too strong term, otherwise instead of having each distro reinventing the wheel for its installation tool, configuration tool, etc we would have only a few of these tools with higher quality..
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