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You do realize none of these originated with any of the current BSDs, right? The lineage is there, sure, but it's not FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD nor DragonFly wher
by AsyncAwait 6y ago
You do realize none of these originated with any of the current BSDs, right?
The lineage is there, sure, but it's not FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD nor DragonFly where any of what you linked originated.
That's not to say there's no useful software that originated from today's BSDs - there is, just not the above.
- throw0101a 6y ago>> What I dislike about these sorts of articles is that they try to pretend as if BSDs weren't heavily dependent on the wider FLOSS community, which is mostly Linux-based. > You do realize none of these originated with any of the current BSDs, right? You do realize that that there was a wider FLOSS community before Linux came around, right? We're all "building on the shoulders of giants" as they say, and Linux is no different here than BSD.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoThe point was about who contributes the wast majority of the work nowdays. Also, before GNU there indeed wasn't much of a FLOSS community in the modern sense, it was much closer to colleagues sharing program tapes with their modifications as a courtesy. So sure, there were programmers sharing code between each other, but that was kind of informal sharing, more because nobody placed much value on software alone at the time and university labs didn't always wanted to start from scratch. In fact the reason RMS started GNU in the first place was precisely because he felt that kind of sharing culture was being eroded.