From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Dec 22 9:33:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660C237B405 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0313C43EDE for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 09:33:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b206.otenet.gr [212.205.244.214]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBMHXaQK010490 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:33:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBMHXYlK017366 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 19:33:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBMGTEwv017113; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:29:14 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:29:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD's momentum and future prospects Message-ID: <20021222162914.GB16833@gothmog.gr> References: <20021221231417.GB32071@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <001101c2a948$2034b5e0$c601a8c0@silverdollar> <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021222034806.GA34537@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-12-22 03:48, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Peter Kieser wrote: > | On another note, the only reason Linux is getting commerical interest is > | because people don't know about FreeBSD, they also don't know about the > | goods of the BSD license, if corporations were made aware of how the BSD > | license can be used, I gaurntee you we would have more people jumping on the > | band wagon for FreeBSD development and such. I just don't think BSD in > | general gets enough publicity. > > I recently read that the new Mandrake licensing plans for commercial will > allow modification of the source without requiring they be released. The > article remarks how much that is like the BSD license. This sounds pretty impossible to do with GPL code. Where did you read that? Unless seen in more context, "modification of the source without requiring they be released" sounds something very hard to do for Linux and its GPL parts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message