If this truly was a mistake, it would have been easily corrected. And the OpenBSD community would have certainly accepted a fork that gave proper credit. But that's not what happened.
Based upon the writings of the MicroBSD project lead, it is my opinion that the members of the project felt that it was in the best interest of their reputations to simply eliminate the project and focus their efforts elsewhere. The bad press was just too much for them.
I don't have the OS, but I read the bit on misc@openbsd.org last night about the `man 1 banner` humor. I'm dying to know what that manpage says. Could you post the humorous exerpt?
The BSD license states that you can do whatever you want with the code as long as you maintain the copyright notices. MicroBSD was changing "OpenBSD" to "MicroBSD" in the copyright notices of many of their files.
Yes, the BSD license does say that you can do what you want with the code, but it requires that the copyright notices be left intact. The searh and replace wasn't totally blind, as there were several references to OpenBSD left intact. The search and replace was more intentional and devious than the MicroBSD folks would have you believe.
The MicroBSD Project has Shut Down! All works have been removed.
To the OpenBSD developers, There was no intent to modify any copyright in the CVS tree. We have publically acknowledged the issue and have shut down this project. We apologize for the inconvience and commotion this has caused the BSD community. It was never our intent to be at odds with anyone in the community to start. All MicroBSD code has been removed from our servers. The web site will go away. The project will cease to exist. This decision is based on time, efforts involved, the lack of developers, and lack of interest. I personally do not have the time, nor am I inclined to continue with a project that has caused this much negativity in the community.
At the suggestions from various repected people in the industry who supported us, we are sorry. We feel it is not in the best interest of the project to continue its exitance. To those that opposed us from the start, We will just go away as you wish.
Specific developer(s) who committed files with those copyright violations were planning on rectifying the issues. Instead, I have decided to completely remove the source tree and all traces of code commited.
There is currently no CVS, cvsweb or downloads available due to a copyright issue being brought to our attention. We have ceased all development activity to address the issue and remove any violations from the cvs tree. This was an unfortunate oversight on our part, and was not intended to violate any copyright issues. We have taken pain staking measures to be sure to not modify/violate any copyrights. We assure you this copyright issue, was an oversight on our part and was not intentional.
In closing we simply ask the the community carry on as it were, and all person(s) with MicroBSD installed, Please remove the code, and install OpenBSD. We will be providing locations to the various apsect of code we had initially committed in features to get the project off the ground before we continued with our planned unique additons to the BSD community. As of now there will be no further contributions to the BSD community as a whole. In closing, Again we apologize for such oversights, and have removed all code.
MicroBSD's site isn't really up.
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The head of the MicroBSD project wrote to misc@openbsd.org last night that he had just finished removing everything from his site. Go ahead and check it out. Every link I clicked on microbsd.com gave me a 404. MicroBSD is dead. It is no more. They blatantly violated OpenBSD's copyrights. In fact most of MicroBSD was just:
3 hours drive from NYC is remote to me. Unless you're in a large city in the US, you're remote. Period. Well, that's how the still-developing GSM carriers see it anyhow.
BTW, I recently looked at the GSM coverage map for the new GSM network that AT&T Wireless is building and noticed that they don't offer any service in the state of NY whatsoever. Strange but true.
The tarball for sendmail itself comes packaged with these scripts. I believe that you simply type./Build sendmail.cf from within the cf/cf directory in order to build it../Build install-cf will install it for you.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that the editors can put a publish date on a story. With that feature of the system, they can have a post appear on the site whenever they wish. He probably wrote the story at least an hour before it posted.
I've never seen K5 slashdotted. Now, I know it's far from the most stable site in town, but posting a link to a K5 article in a/. comment definitely won't give it a problem.
Top it off with the fact that I have yet to see an X-Box game that surpasses Quake 3, CounterStrike, UT2003, Wolfenstein, etc. on the PC in terms of enjoyability, controllability, etc.
Unreal Championship on XBox is quite comparable with UT2003. Check it out.
I couldn't agree more. While I often do a quick walk-around, most of the people that I know have never, not once, done a complete walk-around of their vehicles before heading out on the open road. This is simply insane!
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That's funny. The serial I get now is 2002111001. I wonder if they change it often.
This is the model used by at least one major content management system that uses a language that make Perl look zippy by comparison. They still compete because most page views are found on disk.
They compete with other commercial software. But at US$500,000 for licensing (average), they're nowhere near competing with mod_perl.
Before this, the only generic Wi-Fi bridge was proprietary...
I've had two 3Com Wireless LAN Workgroup Bridges connected to my Linksys AP for about 8 months now. The only difference I see is that the Linksys product is quite a bit cheaper.
I have another issue with switching: unsupported commercial addons. I currently use Covalent SSL on my 1.3.12 servers. I've had to continually patch this old version of apache to keep it secure. And now, Covalent won't sell their "SSL" product for 2.0. They want to sell me a server with all kinds of features built in. All I want is their old, simple, cleaned-up mod_ssl package with support. Is there some other easy way to get SSL support in 2.0?
I've never gotten a popup on nytimes.com with mozilla. I'm following the current releases and always have popup blocking enabled. Maybe they're just particular to the "netscape" releases?
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If this truly was a mistake, it would have been easily corrected. And the OpenBSD community would have certainly accepted a fork that gave proper credit. But that's not what happened.
Based upon the writings of the MicroBSD project lead, it is my opinion that the members of the project felt that it was in the best interest of their reputations to simply eliminate the project and focus their efforts elsewhere. The bad press was just too much for them.
Never mind. Somebody already posted it.
I don't have the OS, but I read the bit on misc@openbsd.org last night about the `man 1 banner` humor. I'm dying to know what that manpage says. Could you post the humorous exerpt?
The BSD license states that you can do whatever you want with the code as long as you maintain the copyright notices. MicroBSD was changing "OpenBSD" to "MicroBSD" in the copyright notices of many of their files.
Yes, the BSD license does say that you can do what you want with the code, but it requires that the copyright notices be left intact. The searh and replace wasn't totally blind, as there were several references to OpenBSD left intact. The search and replace was more intentional and devious than the MicroBSD folks would have you believe.
www.MicroBSD.net has the following announcement:
The MicroBSD Project has Shut Down! All works have been removed.
To the OpenBSD developers, There was no intent to modify any copyright in the CVS tree. We have publically acknowledged the issue and have shut down this project. We apologize for the inconvience and commotion this has caused the BSD community. It was never our intent to be at odds with anyone in the community to start. All MicroBSD code has been removed from our servers. The web site will go away. The project will cease to exist. This decision is based on time, efforts involved, the lack of developers, and lack of interest. I personally do not have the time, nor am I inclined to continue with a project that has caused this much negativity in the community.
At the suggestions from various repected people in the industry who supported us, we are sorry. We feel it is not in the best interest of the project to continue its exitance. To those that opposed us from the start, We will just go away as you wish.
Specific developer(s) who committed files with those copyright violations were planning on rectifying the issues. Instead, I have decided to completely remove the source tree and all traces of code commited.
There is currently no CVS, cvsweb or downloads available due to a copyright issue being brought to our attention. We have ceased all development activity to address the issue and remove any violations from the cvs tree. This was an unfortunate oversight on our part, and was not intended to violate any copyright issues. We have taken pain staking measures to be sure to not modify/violate any copyrights. We assure you this copyright issue, was an oversight on our part and was not intentional.
In closing we simply ask the the community carry on as it were, and all person(s) with MicroBSD installed, Please remove the code, and install OpenBSD. We will be providing locations to the various apsect of code we had initially committed in features to get the project off the ground before we continued with our planned unique additons to the BSD community. As of now there will be no further contributions to the BSD community as a whole. In closing, Again we apologize for such oversights, and have removed all code.
The head of the MicroBSD project wrote to misc@openbsd.org last night that he had just finished removing everything from his site. Go ahead and check it out. Every link I clicked on microbsd.com gave me a 404. MicroBSD is dead. It is no more. They blatantly violated OpenBSD's copyrights. In fact most of MicroBSD was just:
$osname =~ s/Open/Micro/g;
3 hours drive from NYC is remote to me. Unless you're in a large city in the US, you're remote. Period. Well, that's how the still-developing GSM carriers see it anyhow.
BTW, I recently looked at the GSM coverage map for the new GSM network that AT&T Wireless is building and noticed that they don't offer any service in the state of NY whatsoever. Strange but true.
There's already a project folder for Ogg Support.
Didn't UFS1 support files larger than 2GB?
The tarball for sendmail itself comes packaged with these scripts. I believe that you simply type ./Build sendmail.cf from within the cf/cf directory in order to build it. ./Build install-cf will install it for you.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that the editors can put a publish date on a story. With that feature of the system, they can have a post appear on the site whenever they wish. He probably wrote the story at least an hour before it posted.
I've never seen K5 slashdotted. Now, I know it's far from the most stable site in town, but posting a link to a K5 article in a /. comment definitely won't give it a problem.
In other words, slashdot editors are no better than spammers. They both effectively steal bandwidth. When will this change? Taco needs to act now!
Top it off with the fact that I have yet to see an X-Box game that surpasses Quake 3, CounterStrike, UT2003, Wolfenstein, etc. on the PC in terms of enjoyability, controllability, etc.
Unreal Championship on XBox is quite comparable with UT2003. Check it out.
I disagree. I was easily able to get the Tags that I wanted on the first try for both of my XBox Live accounts.
I couldn't agree more. While I often do a quick walk-around, most of the people that I know have never, not once, done a complete walk-around of their vehicles before heading out on the open road. This is simply insane!
That's funny. The serial I get now is 2002111001. I wonder if they change it often.
Each day, /. gives me another reason to ask myself, "Can the editors really be that stupid?"
This is the model used by at least one major content management system that uses a language that make Perl look zippy by comparison. They still compete because most page views are found on disk.
They compete with other commercial software. But at US$500,000 for licensing (average), they're nowhere near competing with mod_perl.
Before this, the only generic Wi-Fi bridge was proprietary ...
I've had two 3Com Wireless LAN Workgroup Bridges connected to my Linksys AP for about 8 months now. The only difference I see is that the Linksys product is quite a bit cheaper.
I have another issue with switching: unsupported commercial addons. I currently use Covalent SSL on my 1.3.12 servers. I've had to continually patch this old version of apache to keep it secure. And now, Covalent won't sell their "SSL" product for 2.0. They want to sell me a server with all kinds of features built in. All I want is their old, simple, cleaned-up mod_ssl package with support. Is there some other easy way to get SSL support in 2.0?
It's too bad it's only a 32-bit 33MHz PCI card. A 64-bit 66MHz card would certainly seem to be a much more useful product.
But what I really wanted to know is, what's with your sig's link? what's the CLSID supposed to do? (NS3 completely ignores it.)
The linked page crashed my IE6 on XP. I think that's the intent. IE is retarded.
I've never gotten a popup on nytimes.com with mozilla. I'm following the current releases and always have popup blocking enabled. Maybe they're just particular to the "netscape" releases?