From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 19 16:50:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652AB14BEC for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:50:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17209; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:50:28 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd017175; Wed May 19 16:50:21 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12086; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:50:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905192350.QAA12086@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! To: unknown@riverstyx.net Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:50:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, spork@super-g.com, howardjp@wam.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "unknown@riverstyx.net" at May 19, 99 12:55:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I don't see why. Linux and FreeBSD are both nice platforms to base > commercial software on. That's my entire business, and I haven't had > any problems... I don't know of one major company with any intellectual property to speak of which has bitten the GPL'ed software apple. The Linux putatively shipping on some large companies computer lines is not "biting the apple". They do not put any intellectual property at risk unless they engage in "value add" and/or maintenance/support. With the exception of Cobalt, which is a systems integrator more than a software company, and which has the MIPS processor and the "buy one box before you ask" barrier to supplicants demanding source code, I can't name one vendor that's showing up on any important radar anywhere. On the *BSD side, I can name Whistle, Freegate, Encanto, Vixie Enterprises, NCI (Oracle), Juniper, Internet Devices, Firepower systems, and many others. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message