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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, no? :p
jpeters
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Comes with 2.6.23.9

Huh? You're kidding. If it uses Linux then it's not BSD at all. Did you do uname -a and get that? I only skimmed the site but presumed they were using FreeBSD bootstrap and a reduced FreeBSD kernel.

chaostic
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, no?

I didn't want to say any more, but I think there could be a bigger problem than just imitation.

Suppose you wanted to develop a new cola. You come up with a standard cola flavor profile, then decide to package it in red cans with white stripes and call it Coca Kola. Is that a flattering imitation? Or does it cross lines involving existing trademarks, etc.?

IMO, it's a bit more than an imitator. And I know Coca Cola would feel even more strongly about something like that. Taking nearly identical goals and packages and using the primary trademarked name of an existing company or project crosses the line.

This is as unacceptable as when "Lindows" was infringing Microsoft's trademark, and as wrong as it would be for a BSD project to come along and use a trademarked name like "Red Hat BSD" or "SlackBSD."
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jpeters
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Comes with 2.6.23.9

Huh? You're kidding. If it uses Linux then it's not BSD at all. Did you do uname -a and get that? I only skimmed the site but presumed they were using FreeBSD bootstrap and a reduced FreeBSD kernel.[/quote]

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Did you look at the actual links to see if all of that information (X, Gnome, KDE, Skype, Linux 2.6, etc.) was related to "DSBSD" or to other projects in  the news at the same time as their announcement? When I looked at the Linux Mini Blog post and Softpedia, neither had anything about a Linux kernel, etc.
http://linuxmini.blogspot.com/2008/01/damn-small-bsd-is-available.html
http://linux.softpedia.com/get....0.shtml
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Did you look at the actual links to see if all of that information (X, Gnome, KDE, Skype, Linux 2.6, etc.) was related to "DSBSD" or to other projects in  the news at the same time as their announcement? When I looked at the Linux Mini Blog post and Softpedia, neither had anything about a Linux kernel, etc.
http://linuxmini.blogspot.com/2008/01/damn-small-bsd-is-available.html
http://linux.softpedia.com/get....0.shtml

Damn, now I'm a true believer in that you can get anything you search for, even if it doesn't exist.  Must be an added feature for google search, in that they'll string together a sentence including your search items even thought they're from different parts of the page.  Oh well....a nice fantasy; the latest kernel, alsa, OO, all in under 50 mb.
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