Jeroen Dekkers writes:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:26:19PM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:10:51PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
Probably because they aren't needed anymore. And if Linux uses BK he could decide that BK is replacing the prepatches system.
IMHO you're confusing a release strategy (prepatches) with a tool (BK).
According to my knowledge vi (at least some implementations) and mozilla are free.
So is Linux. And I'm not sure about vi, I could only find a draft of a licence that wasn't sure about being GPL compatible.
I don't know about vim, but the first original vi is certainly BSD.
They do. They give the impression that they can't do everything with free software and have to use non-free software. That isn't really
Well -- ande this is actually true and usually a result of some kind or other of vendor lock-in. Think about PDF. My god, how I wish to get that replaced by something free which every windows user can read.
My biggest reasons for not staying with Linux are technical.
And the biggest reasons for Linux being widely used are technical, as are the biggest reasons for Hurd not being widely used nor developed upon...
Linux being widely used is a social thing, not a technical. On the technical part, the Hurd has a much better design and the source code is much cleaner.
Well, actually any agreement on what is 'technically better' is also a social thing (think about KISS vs flexibility/power -- where do you trade off?).
Regards -- Markus