From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 05:04:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94CD16A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 05:04:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563B243D39 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2004 05:04:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) iA253jv00426; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:03:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Josh Ockert" Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 21:03:45 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <126eac4804110106127610fe07@mail.gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: GPL vs BSD Licence X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 05:04:06 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Ockert [mailto:torstenvl@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:12 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: chat@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence > > > Actually, Ted, to us newbies, it is uninteresting. Apparently you were interested enough to post. > Most of us come from Linux That is a rather illogical view don't you think? The majority of users of computers out there start out as Windows users, this is pretty well proven by innumerable marketing surveys. Therefore it stands to reason that of the newbiews to FreeBSD that Windows users, not Linux users, are going to be the majority, purely because of the numbers. Also I can't help but point out that my book covered the newbie coming into FreeBSD from WINDOWS not from LINUX. I very much doubt it would have been accepted for publication if it had assumed newbies to FreeBSD came from Linux, not Windows. Publishing is pretty much a numbers game. Ted