Subject: NetBSD and GNU (was Re: $100 laptops' OS?)
To: Christian von Kleist <cvk@zybx.com>
From: Matthew Orgass <darkstar@city-net.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 11/18/2005 15:36:10
Ben Collver wrote:
> It does seem a little odd considering NetBSD uses GPL software for such
> important parts of the base system, ie: CVS, GCC, groff, sendmail,
> postfix, ...

  This reminds me how surprised I was recently to notice that GNU
distfiles are actually now a slight majority of NetBSD src (not counting
xsrc).  Comp sets have been growing faster than base, although it looks
like base is getting a big boost for 3.0...

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com