Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 05 March 2008 20:47 : \____
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
>> <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>> on Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:23:48 -0500
>> <1bkdm31c5qvjo.1i5n9kdciyvet.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:17:03 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <5481648.DByOys2Cf2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> It's a kernel, just like Linux. They share the same components on top
>>>>> (whatever
>>>>> makes a GNU/Linux distribution). BSD even uses and relies on Linux
>>>>> software (through compatibility layers). I use a lot of BSD software.
>>>>
>>>> So? Read the charter sometime.
>>>
>>> Yea.
>>> Even by their own charter, Schestowitz is by far the worst offender.
>>>
>>
>> Fine; send an abuse report to his uplink. Haven't you
>> figured that out *yet*? :-P
>>
>> You can also, if you like, issue a Call for Revision
>> (or whatever it's called) to change the charter, or even
>> a Call to Vacate (not sure what that's called officially
>> either) to request that this newsgroup be deleted from
>> all newsspools. (Such are of course rare in the comp.*
>> hierarchy, but there does exist a procedure.)
>
> 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.
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