Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:00:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), tms2@mail.ptd.net (Thomas M. Sommers), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <200008242000.NAA13340@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000819112135.A16479@physics.iisc.ernet.in> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at Aug 19, 2000 11:21:35 AM
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> Terry Lambert said on Aug 19, 2000 at 01:31:48: > > > If they are giving away their source, they probably aren't planning on > > > making much of a profit from it any more. If they use the GPL, they can > > > be pretty sure that no one else will make one, either. > > > > If I have a beer, and I'm not going to drink it, if I piss in it, > > I can be pretty sure no one will drink it, either. > > A totally ridiculous and irrelevant analogy, and exactly what I meant > with my licensing wars comment earlier. A more hardline commercial > developer may argue that BSD-licensing code is "pissing in it" because > people will always prefer to use that instead of a commercial > equivalent. (eg, SSH versus OpenSSH -- it's fairly clear that it was > the existence of OpenSSH which forced the SSH people to change their > licensing policy a few days ago.) You don't think the expiration of the remaining RSA patent in September had anything to do with it? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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