还有人记得Linux之前,那个理想又骄傲的BSD吗?
文 | lola
策划 | lola
出品 | OSC开源社区(ID:oschina2013)
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被一笔带过的开源前史
“我们编写了这段代码,他们(AT&T)却声称它是他们的。这让我们很生气,因为他们拿走了我们的工作,没有支付一分钱,还通过出售该死的许可证赚钱。” —— Marshall Kirk McKusick (他亲身参与了 4.3BSD 和 4.4BSD 的开发和发行)
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失去两年后,物是人非
一家利益至上的公司,以微不足道的理由,为了一个自己根本不在乎的产品,悍然发动一场损人不利己的战争。
This is simply a shame, actually intends to BSDi enter and stupid legal disputes AT&T's when, in the occurrence leadership vacuum, BSD community full of fear, uncertainty and doubt in the critical moment, it led to a massive loss of territory to Linux outcome.
这简直是一种耻辱,把 BSDi 卷入和 AT&T 的愚蠢的法律纠纷,这就出现了领导真空的情况,整个 BSD 社区都充满了恐惧、不确定性和怀疑,导致了我们失去了巨大领土给 Linux。
—— FreeBSD 创始人之一 Jordan Hubbard
我们有相当的技术背景和良好的头脑,但是缺乏足够的法律安全意识和有效的领导可以将 BSD 的不同部落团结起来,去带领我们走出去艰难时刻。这场重大的风暴中,我们失去了非常重要的两年战略。
—— FreeBSD 创始人之一 Jordan Hubbard
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傲气仍在,气数渐弱
BSD is what you get when a bunch of UNIX hackers sit down to try to port a UNIX system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a UNIX system for the PC. BSD 的黑客们试图将 Unix 移植到电脑上,而 Linux 则是黑客们尝试在电脑上写一个 Unix。
Frankly, none of us really understand Bill and his curious mindset. Bill is definitely a smart guy, very difficult to complete a lot of code but he is such a person, if they are for you. the company's work, then, will own and a workstation locked in a room, eating such food pizza, do not open the door and put everything stuffed under the door.
坦白说,没人能懂 Bill 和他奇怪的思维。他很聪明,能完成非常复杂的编码。但他是这样的人:在公司他会将自己锁在工作室里,从不开门,吃着类似披萨一样的东西,把东西从门缝里推出来。
— FreeBSD 创始人之一 Jordan Hubbard
大多数人都是糟糕的程序员,让很多人盯着代码不会真正发现错误。真正的错误是由几个非常聪明的人发现的。大多数人看代码不会看到任何东西......不能期望成千上万的人做出贡献并都达到高标准。
We never considered GPL license like BSD, like it's short and flexible like him popular for engineers and lawyers to read, which achieved our aim, although it limits our responsibility (liability), but! At the same time as the code uses as many people. GPL is not what we think of identity license, but a political declaration.
我们从来没有考虑过 GPL。BSD 虽然限制了我们的责任,但它短小灵活,很受工程师和律师的欢迎,这达到了我们的目的。然而,同样是为了代码得到尽可能多的人的使用,GPL 并不符合我们的身份认定, 是一种政治宣言。
—— FreeBSD 创始人之一 Jordan Hubbard
Linux 他们做的事是因为他们讨厌微软,我们所做的事情是因为我们热爱 Unix。
—— OpenBSD 创始人 Theo de Raadt
I do not mind whether the user back to their feedback to modify the code, and if this happens, is the icing on the cake (an added bonus), but I What do not tend to do to make it happen, such as a gun to force it to the other side into submission (enforce at the point of a gun ).
我不在乎用户是否会返回修改后的代码,如果有当然是锦上添花,但我并不有意去这样要求,这就像拿着枪去强迫别人屈从一般。
—— FreeBSD 创始人之一 Jordan Hubbard
We need more PR for FreeBSD and get more tech journalists like yourself to write about FreeBSD. We also need more trainings and classes that include FreeBSD in universities, trainings/workshops at technical conferences, more FreeBSD contributors giving talks at those conferences, more technical journalists, as well as, users writing about FreeBSD, and finally we need case studies from companies and organizations successfully using FreeBSD. FreeBSD 需要更多的 PR 与曝光,欢迎更多的媒体来报道 FreeBSD。同时,我们还需要开设更多 FreeBSD 相关的大学课程和培训、在研讨会上组织工作坊、更多 FreeBSD 的贡献者可以在论坛上畅所欲言,更多科技记者和写手的关注 FreeBSD。最后,我们希望能看到更多企业和组织成功地使用 FreeBSD。
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