Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:48:44 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> 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: <4786223C.2040302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86y7axhjzm.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <88854.1199953554@critter.freebsd.dk> <4785D9CB.5080909@gmail.com> <4785E8A0.30806@gmail.com> <20080110110052.GB10155@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4786058F.8080101@gmail.com> <86y7axhjzm.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "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. Now to really get some flames... I think the fall of the USSR proves you wrong on that.... namely small groups can afford to do stuff this way but not large and critical projects > > DES - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems, Java Developer Tools. http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly. "Free software != Free beer" Blog: http://www.flosoft-systems.com/flosoft_systems_community/blogs/aryeh/index.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhiI8jRvRjGmHRgQRAp4xAKCgQPMiyhNyDqDQ53yXl8Kzg6kIhQCeLtgJ XbxexdVWAwJq8ZdRSt4R0Cg= =y2V0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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