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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:37:07PM -0600, Gabriel wrote: |
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: On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jerry A! wrote: |
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: > Actually, base system isn't only FSF. The default tarball used |
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: > BerkeleyDB, OpenSSH, Perl (which while is GPL'd, isn't owned by the |
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: > FSF), etc... |
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: I meant "the mythical not yet provided base system", which I suppose would |
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: make it not Gentoo. I have a dream of bootstrapping to a minimal system, and |
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: having an ebuild for every package at ftp.gnu.org. I wonder what RMS would |
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: do once he actually had what he asked for. |
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What would you do without SSH? There isn't a working GPL version. |
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Likewise, the only GPL'd MTA is exim. I happen to love it, but most |
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people usually look at Postfix or qmail as alternatives to sendmail. |
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All I'm saying is don't limit yourself by sharing RMS's jingoistic |
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tunnel-vision. |
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The true strength of Gentoo is that it's best-of-breed and not limit of |
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scope. |
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--Jerry |
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name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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email: jerry@××××××.com || ...It's much more important |
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|| than that! |
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