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Re: [Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>] Re: Debian & BSD concerns



On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 07:37:06AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Two words:  binary drivers.
> >
> > If you ask me, that goes against everything the GPL stands for and yes it
> > can have a serious impact on Linux.
> 
> So when you finally triumph and FreeBSD starts to get popular and propietary
> drivers distributed for it, will you drop it like a dead cat and find a
> new OS, never being truely faithful to the systems that have given so
> much to you?

Why do you insist on assuming that one can use a FreeBSD kernel or a
Linux kernel, but not use both?  That's rather shortsighted.

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