Date: 14 Dec 2001 13:03:31 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <mt4rmta50c.rmt@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011214193441.87277.qmail@web21103.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> writes: > In Brief. The point is, forgive my bluntness, but > porting JFS to FreeBSD, might give companies with > Terabytes of information on these file system to > switch to FreeBSD for mission-critical purposes, > even when they know that JFS is under the influence > of the GPL License. Good point, but there are few EXTRA such companies that could and would just because they prefer JFS to Softupdates (or super-softupdates), and the question remains: is it worth it? > (no offense), but if these kind of things are to be > taken religiously (GPL vs. BSD License), than it > would render this whole thread completely illogical, > which i have always tried to prevent. Religious ideas have very practical impacts which you would ignore at your peril. (Need I make references?) Don't fail to consider what a prior message said: If you develop a GPL add-on which, because of the license incompatibility problems, is awkward for people to install (eg, can't be configured at install-time or requires post-install messing with partitions), then you are likely to find that the hard work of yourself and others has only moderate pay-off. Your talents might be better directed elsewhere. (Better for others, that is. You may prefer to scratch your own itch, and you can ingore complaints about that.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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