From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jan 7 16:46:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B00437B404 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:46:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com by imo-d06.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.35.) id n.bc.ea83cff (7866) for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:46:29 -0500 (EST) From: GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:46:28 EST Subject: Re: ONTOPIC - FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT - Not a bunch of To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 59 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hmmmmm... a very interesting point of view, you can copy source code, modify the source code, and sell it, just re-sell it without modifying, download it for free over the internet, make copies of it and give it out to your friends, or sell it, but because you have to give out the name of the original author, it's not "free software". i dont know about the rest of the community, but to me free software is supposed to be free as in free of charge, but that is just one part of it, maybe that is the most important part for businesses, aiming to avoid licensing coses, and i am not saying it is not important to me it is, but i always thought the most important part to us (the community) was being able to study the source code, modify it to our needs, get a level of understanding and customization we never could with a "closed source" OS, and if i can get all that and all i have to do is include the name of the great people who started all this, hey doesn't seem so bad i probably would have gave them credit anyway ever without the license, to be blunt it sound like you are trolling, looking for any excuse to make a good thing bad, either that or just one greed person -later Arthur To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message