Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot

debilo writes, "ONLamp.com is featuring a lengthy interview with Charles M. Hannum, to Slashdotters probably best known for his wake-up call aptly titled The Future of NetBSD that generated a rather vocal discussion. In the interview, Charles speaks about his role in and the beginning of The NetBSD Project, shares his thoughts on software licenses, discusses the popularity of Linux and its development model, and further addresses the problems that NetBSD is facing. Some notable quotes include: 'If I were doing it again, I might very well switch to the LGPL. I'll just note that it didn't exist at the time.' And: 'There was a lot of FUD around this issue — some of it from Linus, actually — and it did cause us some problems.'"

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Re:What is really needed

[Gothmolly]

And you'll end up with 2 versions, 1 that people will sell and be able to use, and another that will smack of the 1.x kernel days, when USB support didn't exist, and X kind of worked if you enabled accelerated video (but often locked up the machine). Your 'freenix' may become a sort of minix replacement, but the rest of us will use Linux.