From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 27 16: 3:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4A737BEE8 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:03:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (ip176.salt-lake-city6.ut.pub-ip.psi.net [38.27.95.176]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25533; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:03:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39593307.B752A758@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:04:39 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Warner Losh , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? References: <3958502D.DF9729BD@gorean.org> <200006242153.OAA01110@h4.private> <200006270615.AAA31842@harmony.village.org> <200006270725.BAA32822@harmony.village.org> <200006271418.IAA04077@nomad.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams wrote: > > FreeBSD (and the rest of the *BSDs) are more than just bits of software. > They are also giving people a choice, and at this point in time the > choice happens to be a much more robust piece of software. But, I still > believe the choice of licensing is *AS* important as the functionality > in the system. (And, they certainly aren't in conflict with each > other.) If we continue to migrate important parts of FreeBSD to licenses more restrictive than the BSD license, we may find ourselves losing embedded design wins to other BSD systems. If that's what the FreeBSD user base wants, so be it, but I suspect it is at odds with the wants and needs of Whistle, Nokia, Apple (maybe), and BSDi (in particular). > That's one of the main reasons I did the BSD thing when Linux was at > 0.11. One. Functionality was way up there, too. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message