On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:46:43 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>> Using OpenSSH or something like PostgreSQL is not off topic. This group is
>> about GNU/Linux, unless we were to just discuss the programming choices and
>> decisions in the kernel, which would be boring.
>>
>> The scope of the word Linux isn't what it used to be.
>
> Linux in cola was never intended to mean just the kernel. It refers to
> the distributions, which include the kernel. Of course, the charter
> also refers to comparisons with other operating systems.
>
> BSD distros both share components with Linux distributions, and also
> compete. Erik likes BSD because Microsoft told him to. Microsoft like
> the BSD licence because they can take the code and return nothing - this
> is the kind of deal which Microsoft have built their business on, over
> the years.
Ok, so it's on topic to discuss BSD because you can run some software on
both BSD and Linux.
By that logic, discussing Windows is acceptable too.
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