From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 8 1:50: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 856A115870; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 01:50:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729E61CD82A; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 01:50:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 01:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Michael Lucas Cc: Peter Schwenk , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo) In-Reply-To: <200001071413.JAA17543@blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Michael Lucas wrote: > But what do *we* get out of it? Simply the satisfaction of knowing > your work is in a photocopier's brain? Why do I prefer the BSD license? Because it helps to raise the bar of software quality for everyone, everywhere. BSD code can be used anywhere with no real strings attached, so it makes a logical foundation from which to build yet higher. BSD software makes the world a better place because people don't have to worry about reimplementing the exact same damn piece of code from scratch, simply because the license terms are unacceptable for their project. How much time has been wasted by the GNU folks alone recoding "free" versions of programs for which BSD versions have existed for decades? Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message