____/ 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.
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