payback time for MS & BSD...or, this subject line is getting too long (was Re: AW: this affects DotGNU (was: this doesn't affect DotGNU (was Re:[DotGNU]New addendum for MS redistributables)))

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Gopal.V wrote:
> 	This is just a gesture to show that "We are not a 
> windows centric monopoly, look we're supporting .NET on 
> FreeBSD...."

One can make the argument that the non-copylefted BSD UNIX, and all the 
code-forking that happened with it and proprietary companies in the first 
place, allowed Windows to take over in the first place.

Maybe .NET on FreeBSD is like some sort of twisted `thank-you'....

--
Eh, that's it, I guess.  No 300 million dollar unveiling event for this
kernel, I'm afraid, but you're still supposed to think of this as the
"happening of the century" (at least until the next kernel comes along).
        -- Linus, in the announcement for 1.3.27