From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jan 8 6:10:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C4915951 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 06:10:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p14-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.111]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id XAA06882; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 23:09:58 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38774525.B21CE8FD@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:09:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Lucas Cc: Peter Schwenk , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo) References: <200001071413.JAA17543@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michael Lucas wrote: > > But what do *we* get out of it? Simply the satisfaction of knowing > your work is in a photocopier's brain? Well, y'see, if vendor A grabs some of our code to improve his software, vendor A's competitors, B and C, will also feel compelled to improve their own software, either by grabbing our code or by developing better code themselves. The end result is that the software from vendors A, B and C has been improved. GPL advocates wants open software. We want better software. For example, if the TCP/IP stack had been GPLed, we would be using OSI. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Water! Water! Water! Huh? Huh! Water! Water!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message