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> This means that the Linux world have done everything from scratch, to see
> if they could do something better than the others...
Err..."no."
The entire Linux kernel is basically done from scrath. Almost all
of the userland was taken from GNU and BSD work.
> > My only request, should someone do such a rewrite, is to do it in
> > such a way that we can steal it and wedge it into BSD without too
> > much dificulty. :-)
>
> It's free code... Be my guest... :)
Actually, it's not free code, it's GPLed. One of the things you'd
have to do to make it free (and usable by BSD folk) would be to
remove the GPL, as the GPL insists that you change the license of
other code not owned or written by the coder in questino.
(Thus the term `Gnu Public Virus.' It infects everything it touches.)
cjs
Curt Sampson
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