[aclug-L] Re: There are still some monkeys in the CEO chair

["Jonathan Hall" <flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The GNU GPL may give Linux an advantage over FreeBSD, but that is not the
primary reason that Linux has come to a possition of "threatening"
Microsoft.  If it plays any role in Linux's possition as a competator to
Microsoft, I would say it is a minor one.



> > To say that Linux's advantage is that it's "not a clone" (sic),
> > is to say that what gives Linux a strategic advantage, other
> > options, like FreeBSD, don't have.  I think this is simply not
> > true.
>  I think GNU/Linux does have an advantage over
> FreeBSD because FreeBSD does not have the
> GNU General Public License.
> And I believe it is alright to say that the GNU/Linux Kernel
> is Unix-like but that it is not alright to say that the GNU/Linux
> Kernel is a Unix clone.
>  I sent out an email to GNU.org to find out if I am correct
> by saying that GNU/Linux is not a clone of Unix but
> that GNU/Linux is Unix-like.
> -------------------------cyclox
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