Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 19:49:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: RE: Some thoughts on advocacy (was: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgra Message-ID: <XFMail.990502194901.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905022238040.7397-100000@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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On 02-May-99 Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> (b) by bashing the GPL. There was a businessweek article which
> observed that the GPL has never really been tested in the courts;
> by no means can it be construed as an anti-GPL article (it calls
> it "innovative", "effective", etc), but a response on this list
> chose to lambast the GPL as "obnoxious" etc, which is quite
> uncalled for. Linux users may be persuaded of FreeBSD's
> superiority in some things, but if they are asked to choose on
> the basis of licence, most of them will stick with linux...
> This is not the time to get into a rebuttal of that letter (which
> definitely I would call "obnoxious", a term I would use neither
> for the GPL nor for any other licence). GPL haters can rm -rf
> /usr/src/gnu and try rebuilding their system... (And why are so
> many businesses jumping on the "business-unfriendly" Linux/GNU
> bandwagon?)
Hmmm, the main difference between the GPL and the BDSL is that the BSD
License allows for commercial use and is thus IMHO and of most others here
more suitable for their activities as well as their corporate contacts...
But fair is fair, both advocates tend to border on the brink of zealotry,
but isn't that always the point in advocacy? Advocacy always assumes one
product is better in a certain aspect than the other product...
*shrug* I tend to like *BSD more for it's simpler license and less forced
files down one's throat... I think I can dream the GPL by now...
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