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MicroBSD Is No More

Posted by michael on from the microbsd-is-dying dept.

TrumpetPower! writes "Recently there's been quite a row in the OpenBSD community over copyright infringement by the OpenBSD spinoff, MicroBSD. Many parts of MicroBSD would seem to be a wholesale search-n-replace of the two names...including copyright notices. As a result, MicroBSD has shut down. It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running with no special notices."

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  1. /. Strikes Again! by s1r_m1xalot · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running....

    We'll see about that michael... we'll just see about that.

    Definitely a just punishment in this case, though.

  2. Hmmm by cca93014 · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's worth noting that, as of this story submission, the MicroBSD Web site is still up and running with no special notices.
    It's worth noting that most sites are still up and running at the point the story is submitted. After that, however, they are fucked.

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    Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting

  3. An Unholy alliance by TheIronDuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe MicroBSD can get help from Microsoft in the patent fight.

  4. *ahem* by Atzanteol · · Score: 4, Funny

    BSD is dead!

    Appologies. :-)

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    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  5. Got me thinking.... by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, when you steal something that is free to begin with, you have a problem.

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    Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
  6. Re:best sample of search and replace... by mdb31 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This reminds me of the manual for the Commodore VIC20, where the body text had been localized, but the screenshots were still all in the original English. Especially in the 'introduction to BASIC' section, this had some interesting effects:

    PRINT "REGENBOOG"
    RAINBOW

    Very impressive level of machine translation going on there for a box with just a few kilobytes of RAM...

  7. Re:after reading the various links... by someonehasmyname · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uhh.. It looks as if they did a search for "OpenBSD" and replaced it with "MicroBSD." Quoting one of the links:

    Around line 30, it says this:
    You are STRONGLY urged to use ssh instead of telnet, rlogin, or rsh! ssh is
    included in all MicroBSD systems. The implementation is OpenSSH, which we are
    the developers of.

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    Common sense is not so common.