Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:31:54 -0600 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: william wong <beijing.liangjie@gmail.com> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker 101 Message-ID: <20080125063154.GA9925@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <84a208a0801242158q632314dfpd370a2fee2f87390@mail.gmail.com> References: <84a208a0801232306k6a34134aqd549a1ba2160fe41@mail.gmail.com> <86bq7bwlot.fsf@ds4.des.no> <84a208a0801240456q3154de92me73e846df84d587a@mail.gmail.com> <86prvrv0b1.fsf@ds4.des.no> <84a208a0801240711j979874apad2d17c9afdbd6e@mail.gmail.com> <86fxwn877v.fsf@ds4.des.no> <84a208a0801242158q632314dfpd370a2fee2f87390@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:58:51PM +0800, william wong wrote: > That brings me to another ponder: why juniper and cisco are using > FreeBSD and not Linux even Linux performs better in an UP environment? Other posters have mentioned that there is a mix of Linux and BSD at Cisco. I don't work there, so I can't comment. However, if you're shipping a product where you don't necessarily wish to publish whatever code enhancements you've created, the BSD license is most likely a better choice. What was discussed at the last BSDCan was the fact that the companies that use BSD-licensed components are evolving towards contributing back improvements that they make to the system that they do not feel are their differentiators, and keeping to themselves the intellectual property that they feel puts them at a competitive advantage in their market. So it comes down to a legal and philosophical difference -- one that has been argued incessantly in the BSD vs. GPL camps. It can quickly become a "religious argument" and one that can only be resolved by "agreeing to disagree" -- if that. mcl
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