On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> On Monday 13 January 2003 08:32 am, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
> > As previously shown, most of the programs that "come with" Linux,
> > and therefore are part of the "Operating System" to which you lay
> > claim, were developed by students at the University of California,
> > Berkeley. They even contain a Copyright notice, embedded in the
> > executable files. Anybody can do:
> >
> > 		strings /usr/bin/* | grep Regents
> > 		strings /bin/* | grep Regents
> >
> > ...and see all the copyright notices embedded in the programs to
> > which you now claim credit.
> 
> And by my count (RH 7.3) that comes to 52 for /usr/bin/*
> of those 52:
> 
> 	rdist has 12 entries of its' own.
> 	rdistd has 7 more.
> 
> The majority of the comands deal with mail(7), and postgres (8).
> Of the compiling ones: lex and yacc show one each, gprof has two.
> 
> The rest all have one reference.
> 
> Of these only those dealing with the network (telnet, ftp rdist,rdistd...) 
> would be considered part of the core utilities - and even then they are
> discouraged in use (weak security).
> 
> The rest of the files (3080) do not have a BSD base.
> 
> In /bin/* I find only 4. /bin/csh, /bin/mail, /bin/ping and /bin/tcsh.
> Of these I only consider /bin/ping  a core utility.
> 
> 
> In my opinion, that is not enough to claim a BSD foundation.
> -- 

The early Ygddrasil distributions, of which I posted the 'grep'
several days ago, show that most of the files are BSD based.

I attach it here for your pleasure.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.