Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:45:49 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community Message-ID: <86y7axhjzm.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <4786058F.8080101@gmail.com> (Aryeh M. Friedman's message of "Thu\, 10 Jan 2008 06\:46\:23 -0500") References: <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk> <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com> <4785E8A0.30806@gmail.com> <20080110110052.GB10155@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4786058F.8080101@gmail.com>
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"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> writes: > One thing that FOSS (BSD or GPL) has historical had issues doing > cleanly is seperating free software from free beer. The first being > a very important goal and the second a unfair side effect of thinking > that open source by definition means free use of the products. Speak for yourself. > Yes the source should be avaible to everyone but as far I can tell > that does not automatically and should not translate into not having > some responibility to the community that created the project in the > first place.... my approach (along with 3 other small software > vendors) is to have a requirement to contribute back to the community > in some form (in work or help support those doing the work), namely it > is free software but not free beer. Excellent idea, if your goal is to kill the project. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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