From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jul 10 9:31:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D21737B405; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:31:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15K0Pa-000G3r-00; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:30:58 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6AGUSL53864; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:30:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:30:27 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Eivind Eklund Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <20010710173027.A53776@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010630174743.A85268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010707160255.A18525@thinksec.no> <20010710151059.A52201@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010710175800.A77023@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010710175800.A77023@FreeBSD.org>; from eivind@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:58:00PM +0200 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 | - The CAM code in FreeBSD, developed by Plutotech for their embedded video | editing system and contributed back. This is the present basis for the | FreeBSD SCSI subsystem. I had heard FreeBSD has been used in some video post-production software, but it doesn't seem to get much publicity. I wonder why not? And why can't BSD be used as a platform for a really good audio editing application, like CakeWalk is for Win32? | - The original PnP support for the ed driver, developed by Yours Truly for Yes | interactive and donated back to FreeBSD. This also contained a simple but So these companies don't care that after paying a consultant to do the work, the result is effectively given away? Or do they just want a solution for a problem, and don't care about the code itself? Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message