[Talk] Is AUUG too pro open source?

Greg 'groggy' Lehey Greg.Lehey at auug.org.au
Thu Jan 22 11:38:02 EST 2004


On Wednesday, 21 January 2004 at 20:56:37 +1100, Peter Werner wrote:
>>> I've never had a sense that there is a 'Linux-only' crowd. Open Source
>>> only, perhaps.
>> Maybe so, but nonetheless.
>
> this begs the question, if someone is dogmatically linux or open source only,
> why are they on a unix list? :) best tool for the job and so on.

This presupposes that no UNIX is open source.  If you're a lawyer,
you're correct.  But this is a technical association, and nobody can
deny that technical issues don't make a distinction between
proprietary and open source UNIX, and hardly at all between Linux and
UNIX.

Greg
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