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FreeBSD to Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary in SF, CA
Dan writes "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...in the early part of 1993...the last 3 coordinators of the 'Unofficial 386BSD Patchkit' would go on to start the FreeBSD project that has grown to be used by millions of websites and installations around the world. Murray Stokely is talking about Jordan Hubbard, Nate Williams, and Rod Grimes. Looking for a catchy name, David Greenman suggested FreeBSD and it stuck. With the help of Walnut Creek CDROM, the first CDROM distribution, FreeBSD 1.0, was released in December of 1993."
Earth to Linux zealot. XFree86 is BSD software. That's right, it's under the BSD license, and has *nothing* to do with Linux! Wow.
Furthmore, you can't credit Linux with GCC either. GCC is worked on by many many people using many different systems. By your logic, you should be kissing Apple and Sun's butts since they infused quite a bit of help into GCC and GNOME. You should also kiss Troll Tech's butt for QT which let's KDE exist. And of course you should kiss SGI's butt for giving you GLX (part of XFree now) and OpenGL.
So Red Hat helps out too, so what? Linux is owed nothing and deserves nothing.
If anything, Linux has set the open source movement back a few years by having inferior technology (ya ya 2.6 fixes this) and an unstable driver API preventing the much needed vendor made drivers.
Oh, and Linux is not the real world by the way. Look up, away from your monitor and breath. Meet world.
So who else has contributed broken software to a 1.0 release?
I'm the reason why the mitsumi CD-ROM driver was broken, and of course Rod had just cut the gold master (and back then it was a major pain to make masters) and could not update the sources.
After about 20 patches, he just just gave me a commit bit...:)
BWP