Free/Net/OpenBSD is to BSDI what Linux is to SCO: death.
Not so. BSDI is basically a commercialized version of FreeBSD; any improvements made to FreeBSD will be improvements to BSDI also. Contrast this with Linux, where the GPL prevents companies like SCO from making proprietary versions.
Tim O'Reilly pays Larry Wall's salary. If that's not a significant contribution to this movement, WHAT IS?
Unfortunately, much of the software which Larry writes (such as the Java / Perl interface) is now hoarded by O'Reilly, instead of being free software. It is arguable that O'Reilly is hurting free software by employing Larry.
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They didn't even do all the porting. See Russell King's ARM port, from which Corel's Linux is derived.
AFAIK, he was being _ironic_, not sarcastic.
Irony is when you say the opposite of what you mean. Sarcasm is when you say what you mean, but in a cutting manner.
Not so. BSDI is basically a commercialized version of FreeBSD; any improvements made to FreeBSD will be improvements to BSDI also. Contrast this with Linux, where the GPL prevents companies like SCO from making proprietary versions.
Unfortunately, much of the software which Larry writes (such as the Java / Perl interface) is now hoarded by O'Reilly, instead of being free software. It is arguable that O'Reilly is hurting free software by employing Larry.