Re: Will anti-Berkeley boycotts affect BSD Unix?

2017-02-03 Thread Joe Nosay
BSD Best Software Distribution Brightest Sunshiny Day On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Alex Libman wrote: > My Fellow BSD Users & Advocates: > > In light of the recent violent faculty-supported anti-free-speech riots at > UC Berkeley, the archaic namesake of BSD Unix, I would like to once agai

Re: Will anti-Berkeley boycotts affect BSD Unix?

2017-02-03 Thread Geoff White
Alex, This is BS. The violence was created by Black Bloc, UC had nothing to do with it. The talk was canceled because the entire situation was unsafe. I'd you have any questions or would like clarification please reach out. Sent from my Nexus 6. Big Sister is indexing you. On Feb 3, 2017 1:10

Re: Will anti-Berkeley boycotts affect BSD Unix?

2017-02-03 Thread Alex Libman
I am not here to start a general political debate.  I am not a Trumpsupporter nor a Clinton supporter, and I have a very long history ofusing and advocating BSD Unix since the 90s. The question is: if you had started with a blank slate, choosing aname for a Unix OS that gets contributions from al

Re: Will anti-Berkeley boycotts affect BSD Unix?

2017-02-03 Thread Rebecca Page
The B in BSD should and always stand for Berkeley. Political and social ideas do not affect historical software naming conventions. Sent from my iPhone Rebecca L. Page > On Feb 3, 2017, at 4:46 PM, Alex Libman wrote: > > > ___ > freebsd-advoc...@free